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The Heavy Quark Expansion of QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

These lectures contain an elementary introduction to heavy quark symmetry and the heavy quark expansion. Applications such as the expansion of heavy meson decay constants and the treatment of inclusive and exclusive semileptonic BB decays are included. Heavy hadron production via nonperturbative fragmentation processes is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9610363,
  title  = {The Heavy Quark Expansion of QCD},
  author = {Adam F. Falk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9610363},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

51 pages, 7 eps figures, REVTeX. To appear in the Proceedings of the XXIV SLAC Summer Institute, ``The Strong Interaction, from Hadrons to Partons'', August 19-30, 1996