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We underline the general features of the constituent quark model and its success in the description of the spectrum and transitions of hadrons made up of light or heavy quarks, briefly compared to first principles of QCD. To show the…
Using a multistate smearing method, Coulomb gauge wave functions of heavy-light mesons are studied in lattice QCD. Wave functions for the ground state, the first radially excited S-wave state, and the lowest P-wave states of a heavy-light…
Large N_c relations among baryonic Isgur-Wise functions appearing at the order of 1/m_Q are analyzed. An application to \Omega_b \to \Omega_c weak decays is given.
The strong coupling lattice QCD solution \cite{APtifr} for the Isgur-Wise functions, parametrising the semileptonic decay form factors of hadrons containing a single heavy quark, is reviewed. Several useful features connected with the…
Within the light-front framework, form factors for $P\to P$ and $P\to V$ transitions ($P$: pseudoscalar meson, $V$: vector meson) due to the valence-quark configuration are calculated directly in the entire physical range of momentum…
We propose an extended Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model to include the heavy mesons with the heavy quark symmetry. The quark current-current interaction is generalized to include the heavy quark currents. In order to comply with the heavy quark…
In this paper we compute, within in the context of a relativistic quark model, the Isgur-Wise functions for exclusive semileptonic $\bar B \to X_c$ decays, where $X_c$ is any charmed mesons with total spin $J=0,1,2$ or one of their first…
We construct a leading-order effective field theory for both scalar and axial-vector heavy diquarks, and consider its power expansion in the heavy diquark limit. By assuming the transition from QCD to diquark effective theory, we derive the…
We study the form factors of heavy--to--heavy and heavy--to--light weak decays using the light--front relativistic quark model. For the heavy--to--heavy $B \ra D^{(\ast)}$ semileptonic decays we calculate the corresponding Isgur--Wise…
The spin-averaged binding energy and the hyperfine mass splitting of heavy-light mesons are investigated within the constituent quark model as a function of the inverse heavy-quark mass. It is shown that the so-called heavy-quark kinetic…
We investigate the decay properties of some beauty and charm mesons with a phenomenological potential model. First, we consider the nonrelativistic Hamiltonian of the mesonic system with Coulomb plus exponential terms and study the wave…
We report improved wave function for mesons in QCD potential model approach using multiplicative method for solution of Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the extreme cases of inter-quark separations ($r\rightarrow0$ and $r\rightarrow\infty$).…
We present the predictions of ISGW2, an update of the ISGW quark model for semileptonic meson decays. The updated model incorporates a number of features which should make it more reliable, including the constraints imposed by Heavy Quark…
Fragmentation functions for heavy-light mesons, like the charmed D, D^* mesons, are proposed. They rest on next-to-leading QCD Perturbative Fragmentation Functions for heavy quarks, with the addition of a non-perturbative term describing…
In a preceeding study in the heavy quark limit of QCD, it has been demonstrated that the best lower bound on the curvature of the Isgur-Wise function Xsi(w) is Xsi"(1) > (4rho2+3(rho2)2) > 15/16. The quadratic term (rho2)2 is dominant in a…
We study the transitions ${\Lambda_b \to \Lambda_c\left({1 \over 2}^\pm \right)}$ in the Bakamjian-Thomas (BT) relativistic quark model formalism, which describes hadrons with a fixed number of constituents. In the heavy quark limit, the BT…
In the framework of the instantaneous Bethe Salpeter equation we investigate weak decays of B and D mesons. Mesons are described as q-bar q states interacting via a mixture of a scalar and a vector confining kernel and a one gluon exchange.…
A computation of the Isgur-Wise universal form factor using a lattice implementation of the heavy quark effective theory is described, and the results of a lattice simulation are presented.
Based on the observation that the heavy quark-antiquark potential value at infinity corresponds to twice the D meson mass, we constrain the asymptotic value of the heavy quark potential in a hot medium through a QCD sum rule calculation of…
Radiative corrections to both perturbative and non-perturbative contributions are added to existing calculations of the Isgur-Wise function $\xi_{IW}$. To this end, we develop a method for calculating two-loop integrals in the heavy quark…