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Testing factorization

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We briefly review the status of factorization in bb-decays. We discuss several experimental tests of its nature and stress their importance. We show that decays into mesons which have small decay constants or spin greater than one (`designer mesons') offer a variety of new opportunities.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0111235,
  title  = {Testing factorization},
  author = {Gudrun Hiller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0111235},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Invited talk at the 9th International Symposium on Heavy Flavor Physics (HF9), 10-13 September 2001, Caltech, Pasadena. To be published in the proceedings; 8 pages, 1 figure, uses aipproc