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We study two rare decays, $Z \to \pi^+\pi^-$ and $K^+K^-$, in the perturbative QCD approach up to the next-to-leading order of the strong coupling and the leading power of $1/m_Z$, $m_Z$ being the $Z$ boson mass. The branching ratios…
We report results (on an intermediate statistics sample) of a study of weak semi-leptonic formfactors of $B$ and $D$ decays, addressing the uncertainties from mass extrapolations to chiral and to heavy quarks. Moreover, we present a…
Recently B-factories have published new results on the $B \to K \eta \gamma$ decays being inspired by the theoretical suggestion to search for new physics in $B \to P_1 P_2 \gamma$ decays. Using heavy meson chiral perturbation theory we…
Precision measurements in weak decays of heavy flavored hadrons can test in unique ways our understanding of the fundamental interactions and of the observed baryon asymmetry in the Universe. The high sensitivity of such decays to…
We report the observation of the doubly Cabibbo-suppressed decay $D^+\to K^+ \pi^- \pi^+$ in data from Fermilab charm hadroproduction experiment E791. With a signal of 59 \pm 13 events we measured the ratio of the branching fraction for…
We present the results of our lattice QCD study of the $g_{D^* D\pi}i$ coupling, relevant to the $D^\ast \to D\pi$ decay. Our computation is made on the gauge field configurations that include $N_f=2$ dynamical light quarks by using the…
An analysis of the Dalitz plots for the decays $D^+\to K^-\pi^+\pi^+$ and $D^+\to\pi^-\pi^+\pi^+$ indicates that structure with significant phase variation is required in the s-wave $K^-\pi^+$ and $\pi^-\pi^+$ systems in the region below 1…
A symmetry-preserving continuum approach to meson bound-states in quantum field theory, employed elsewhere to describe numerous $\pi$- and $K$-meson electroweak processes, is used to analyse leptonic and semileptonic decays of $D_{(s)}$…
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 general parametrization of the amplitudes for the rare two-body decays B -> pi K is introduced, which makes maximal use of theoretical constraints arising from flavour symmetries of the strong interactions and the structure of the…
The production mechanisms of open strangeness ($K^*$) and open charm ($D^*$) vector mesons in $\pi^- p$ scattering, namely, $\pi^- +p \to K^{*0} + \Lambda$ and $\pi^- + p \to D^{*-} + \Lambda_c^+$, are investigated within the modified…
The resonant structure of the doubly Cabibbo-suppressed decay $D^+ \to K^-K^+K^+$ is studied for the first time. The measurement is based on a sample of pp-collision data, collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the LHCb detector…
Using a relativistic transport model to describe the expansion of the fire-cylinder formed in the initial stage of heavy-ion collisions at SPS/CERN energies, we study the production of dileptons with mass below about 1 GeV from these…
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Recent anomalies observed in $e^+e^-$ nuclear transitions of $^8 \textrm{Be}$, $^4 \textrm{He}$, and $^{12} \textrm{C}$ by the ATOMKI collaboration may hint at the existence of a vector boson with a mass around 17 MeV, referred to as X17.…
We present a lattice QCD calculation of the form factors and differential decay rates for semileptonic decays of the heavy-light mesons $B$ and $D$ to the final state $\pi l\nu$. The results are obtained with three methodological…
We investigate $S=-1$ hyperon production from the $\Lambda_c^+\to K^-p\pi^+$ and $\Lambda_c^+\to K^0_Sp\pi^0$ decays within the effective Lagrangian approach. We consider the $\Sigma/\Lambda$ ground states, $\Lambda(1520)$,…
The $g$, $h$, and $k$ Dalitz plot parameters, which are coefficients in a series expansion of the squared module of the matrix element $|M(u,v)|^{2} \propto 1 + gu + hu^{2} + kv^{2}$ ($u$, $v$ are invariant variables), have been measured…
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…