Towards a Theory of Hadronic B Decays
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We review recent advances in the theory of strong-interaction effects and final-state interactions in hadronic weak decays of heavy mesons. In the heavy-quark limit, the amplitudes for most nonleptonic, two-body B decays can be calculated from first principles and expressed in terms of semileptonic form factors and light-cone distribution amplitudes. We discuss the features of this novel QCD factorization and illustrate its phenomenological implications.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0006265,
title = {Towards a Theory of Hadronic B Decays},
author = {Matthias Neubert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0006265},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages, 1 figure. Invited review talk presented at the XXXVth Rencontres de Moriond, QCD and High-Energy Hadronic Interactions, Les Arcs, France, 18--25 March 2000