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We calculate the leading power corrections to the decay rates, distributions and hadronic spectral moments in rare inclusive \bxsll decays in the standard model, using heavy quark expansion (HQE) in $(1/m_b)$ and a phenomenological model…
I review recent developments in lattice weak matrix element calculations. I focus on on $f_B$ (both with propagating quarks and in the static limit for the $b$ quark), semi-leptonic form factors for $D$ meson decay, form factors for $B \to…
The branching fractions of the rare weak $B\to \pi l^+l^-(\nu\bar\nu)$ and $B\to\rho l^+l^-(\nu\bar\nu)$ decays are calculated in the framework of the relativistic quark model based on the quasipotential approach. The form factors…
We provide updated predictions for the hadronic decays $\bar{B}_s^0\to D_s^{(*)+} \pi^-$ and $\bar{B}^0\to D^{(*)+} K^-$. They are based on $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^2)$ results for the QCD factorization amplitudes at leading power and on…
We calculate the differential branching fractions and angular distributions of the rare decays $B^0 \to K^{*0} \mu^+ \mu^-$ and $B_s^0 \to \phi \mu^+ \mu^-$, using for the first time form factors from unquenched lattice QCD. We focus on the…
We study the $f^+$ form factor for the semileptonic $\bar B_s\to K^+\ell^-\bar\nu_\ell$ decay in a constituent quark model. The valence quark estimate is supplemented with the contribution from the $\bar B^*$ pole that dominates the high…
We use lattice QCD to calculate the form factors $f_+(q^2)$ and $f_0(q^2)$ for the semileptonic decay $B_s\to K\ell\nu$. Our calculation uses six MILC asqtad 2+1 flavor gauge-field ensembles with three lattice spacings. At the smallest and…
We present precision corrections to dispersion relation bounds on form factors in bottom hadron semileptonic decays and analyze their effects on parameterizations derived from these bounds. We incorporate QCD two-loop and nonperturbative…
A new method is suggested to calculate the $B\to \pi\pi$ hadronic matrix elements from QCD light-cone sum rules. To leading order in $\alpha_s$ and $1/m_b$, the sum rule reproduces a factorizable matrix element, in accordance with the…
$B_s^0\rightarrow D_s^{-}$ and $B_s^0\rightarrow D_s^{*-}$ weak transition form factors are estimated for the whole physical region with a method based on an instantaneous approximated Mandelstam formulation of transition matrix elements…
We summarize recent progress in the theory of exclusive rare and semileptonic B decays, focusing on model-independent results. The heavy-to-light form factors parameterizing these decays admit a model-independent description in two distinct…
We improve QCD calculations of the $B_{d, s} \to \pi, K$ form factors at large hadronic recoil by implementing the next-to-leading-logarithmic resummation for the obtained leading-power light-cone sum rules in the soft-collinear effective…
We investigate the rare decays $B_c \rightarrow D_s(1968) \ell \bar{\ell}$ and $B_c\rightarrow D_s^*(2317) \ell \bar{\ell}$ in the framework of the light-cone quark model (LCQM). The transition form factors are calculated in the space-like…
We update the Standard Model predictions for the rare decays $K^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar\nu$ and $K_L\to\pi^0\nu\bar\nu$. In view of improved limits on $B_s$--$\bar B_s$ mixing we derive a stringent and theoretically clean Standard Model upper…
Semileptonic $B_s \to K \ell \nu$ decays provide an alternative $b$-decay channel to determine the CKM matrix element $|V_{ub}|$, and to obtain a $R$-ratio to investigate lepton-flavor-universality violations. Results for the CKM matrix…
A new model-independent parametrization is proposed for the hadronic form factors in the semileptonic $\bar{B}\to D\ell\bar{\nu}_\ell$ decay. By a combined consideration of the recent experimental and lattice QCD data, we determine…
Using dispersive methods, we study the $B \to \gamma^*$ form factors underlying the decay $B^- \to \ell^- \bar{\nu}_\ell \ell^{\prime-} \ell^{\prime+}$. We discuss the ambiguity that arises from a separation of the full $B^- \to \ell^-…
The $B$-meson light-cone distribution amplitude is an important non-perturbative quantity arising in the factorization of the amplitudes for many exclusive decays of $B$ mesons, such as $B^-\to\gamma\,\ell^-\bar\nu$. We reconsider the…
Using the form factors calculated in the three-point QCD sum rules approach, we calculate the new physics contributions to the physical observables of $B_c \to D_s^* \mu^+\mu^-$ decay in the family non-universal $Z^{\prime}$ model. Under…
By incorporating the available leading-power results at $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s)$ and next-to-leading-power corrections at tree level, we improve the precision of the theoretical predictions for $B\to\pi$ form factors to the…