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We report the first observation of $B^{\pm}\to\psi(2S)\pi^{\pm}$, a Cabibbo- and color-suppressed decay. This analysis is based on $657\times10^{6}$ $B\overline B$ events collected at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at…

The first observation of $CP$ violation in baryon decays was recently reported by the LHCb collaboration in $\Lambda_b^0\to pK^-\pi^+\pi^-$ with $A_{CP} = (2.45 \pm 0.46 \pm 0.10)\%$, which inspires the study on baryon non-leptonic decays.…

We compute theoretical predictions for the production of a W-boson in association with a bottom-quark pair at hadron colliders at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD, including the leptonic decay of the W-boson, while treating the…

Based on the helicity method, formulae for the semileptonic transition of $\Lambda_b^0 \to \Lambda_c^+ \ell^- \bar \nu_\ell$ including lepton mass effects are derived. In order to calculate the form factors of the $\Lambda_b$ baryon…

The Bc --> J/psi pi, etac pi decays are studied with the perturbative QCD approach. It is found that form factors and branching ratios are sensitive to the parameters w, v, f_J/psi and f_etac, where w and v are the parameters of the…

We study the polarized $\Lambda_b$ baryon semileptonic decay $\Lambda_b \to \Lambda_cl{\bar\nu}$ using perturbative QCD factorization theorem. In this approach heavy baryon transition form factors are expressed as the convolutions of hard…

We use operator product expansion and QCD light-cone sum rules to estimate the amplitude of the decay $B \to J/\psi K $ taking into account leading nonfactorizable contributions. The result is very similar to the estimate obtained earlier…

The next-to-leading order QCD corrections for $\chi_{bJ}$, the p-wave bottomonium, to $J/\psi$ pair decay processes are evaluated utilizing NRQCD factorization formalism. The scale dependence of $\chi_{b2}\rightarrow J/\psi J/\psi$ process…

Two body non-leptonic decays: are investigated. Baryon form factors of the heavy quark effective theory are employed. Form factors for renormalization in full QCD are also considered. We find that contributions of the non-factorizable terms…

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…

Using Nonrelativistic QCD on the lattice we studied the mass spectrum of quarkonium systems nonperturbatively for a range of the bar quark mass. We determined two products of the matrix elements involved in quarkonium decays and studied the…

In this work, we studied the quasi-two-body decays $B_{(s)} \to \psi [K^*(892), K^*(1410),$ $K^*(1680)] \to \psi K\pi$ by employing the perturbative QCD (PQCD) factorization approach, where the charmonia $\psi$ represents $J/\psi$ and…

The first observation of the $\Xi_b^0 \to J/\psi \Xi^- \pi^+$ decay and the most precise measurement of the branching fraction of the $\Lambda_b^0 \to J/\psi \Xi^- K^+$ decay are reported, using proton-proton collision data from the LHCb…

In this paper, we study the azimuthal asymmetry in the $J/\psi$ leptoproduction in unpolarized $ep$ collisions. There are two independent azimuthal asymmetry modulations, namely $\mathrm{cos}(\psi)$ and $\mathrm{cos}(2\psi)$, where $\psi$…

In this work, we investigate the $\bar{B}_{s}\to D_{sJ}$ transitions in covariant light-front approach, where $D_{sJ}$ denotes an s-wave or p-wave $c\bar{s}$ meson state. We first obtain the transition form factors within the framework of…

We present the leading-color two-loop QCD corrections for the scattering of four partons and a $W$ boson, including its leptonic decay. The amplitudes are assembled from the planar two-loop helicity amplitudes for four partons and a vector…

A search for charmless four-body decays of $\Lambda_{b}^{0}$ and $\Xi_{b}^{0}$ baryons with a proton and three charged mesons (either kaons or pions) in the final state is performed. The data sample used was recorded in 2011 and 2012 with…

Recent results on charmonia decays at BESII/BEPC are reported, including the observation of psi'-->K_S K_L, psi'--> Vector + Tensor and psi'--> Vector + Pseudoscalar for the measurement of the relative phase between the strong and…

We study the $B_{c}$$\rightarrow$$\psi(2S)$K, $\eta_{c}(2S)$K, $\psi(3770)$K decays with perturbative QCD approach (pQCD) based on $k_T$ factorization. The new orbitally excited charmonium distribution amplitudes $\psi(1^{3}D_{1})$ based on…

We study exclusive nonleptonic and semileptonic decays of the Bc-meson within a relativistic constituent quark model previously developed by us. For the nonleptonic decays we use the factorizing approximation. We update our model parameters…