English

The Heavy Quark Expansion

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-17 v1

Abstract

I review the status of the modern theoretical approach to weak decays of heavy flavor hadrons based on the 1/m_Q expansion in QCD. The qualitative features are explained and the subtleties in simultaneously incorporating perturbative and power-suppressed effects are addressed. A few topical phenomenological applications are discussed in quantitative detail.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9612349,
  title  = {The Heavy Quark Expansion},
  author = {N. G. Uraltsev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9612349},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

30 pages, 3 figures in the text; LaTeX. Talk given at the Symposium on Radiative Corrections (CRAD96), Cracow, 1-5 August 1996. To appear in Proceedings of "CRAD96"