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A mini-review of measurements of inclusive semileptonic $B \to X_c\ell\nu$ and radiative $B\to X_s\gamma$ decays is presented. The semileptonic $X_c$ mass moments are presented from Belle and BABAR. The inclusive $B\to X_s\gamma$ gamma…
We consider the isospin breaking corrections to charmless semileptonic decays of B mesons. Both, the recently measured branching ratios of exclusive decays by the CLEO Collaboration and the end-point reion of the inclusive lepton spectrum…
Experimental studies of charmless semileptonic B decays can be broadly categorized into inclusive and exclusive measurements depending on how the final states are treated. The inclusive method measures the decay rate $\Gamma(B \to X_u \ell…
The most recent experimental measurements of the weak mixing angle $V_{ub}$ are summarized. Inclusive and exclusive analysis techniques are described, including a new exclusive analysis by the CLEO collaboration measuring the $B\rightarrow…
Our Vcb extraction is based on recent Belle results, with unfolded kinematical dependence. We use two different parameterizations of the form factors, the CLN and BGL parameterizations. We discuss how the known discrepancy between the…
This report summarizes recent measurements of the CKM matrix elements $|V_{cb}|$, $|V_{ub}|$, and lepton-flavor universality tests in semileptonic B decays from the Belle and Belle~II experiments. The decay branching factions $R(D^{*})$ and…
We report a theoretical analysis of the exclusive non-leptonic decays of B mesons into two light mesons,some of which have been measured recently by the CLEO collaboration. Our analysis is carried out in the context of an effective…
We show that the leading-power $B$ meson wave function can be extracted reliably from the photon energy spectrum of the $B\to\gamma l\nu$ decay up to $O(1/m_b^2)$ and $O(\alpha_s^2)$ uncertainty, $m_b$ being the $b$ quark mass and…
We report a new measurement of the B-meson semileptonic decay momentum spectrum that has been made with a sample of 9.4/fb of electron-positron annihilation data collected with the CLEO II detector at the Y(4S) resonance. Electrons from…
Implications of recent CLEO measurements of hadronic charmless B decays are discussed.
A measurement of the first four moments of the hadronic mass distribution in B->Xc lv decays is presented for minimum lepton momenta varying between 0.9 and 1.6 GeV, using data recorded with the BaBar detector. Furthermore, a measurement of…
We evaluate thresholds resummed spectra in B -> Xu l nu decays in next-to-leading order. We present results for the distribution in E_X and in m_X^2/E_X^2, for the distribution in E_X and E_l and for the distribution in E_X, where E_X and…
We report a measurement of the inclusive electron energy spectrum for charmed semileptonic decays of B mesons in a 140 fb^-1 data sample collected on the Upsilon(4S) resonance, with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric energy e^+ e^-…
We present three analyses based on data samples collected by the Belle detector at the KEKB e+e- asymmetric energy collider. The first one contains the measurement of the branching fractions and q^2 distributions of exclusive charmless…
Exclusive semileptonic B decays into $D_1$ and $D_2^*$ mesons are investigated including order $\Lambda_{QCD}/m_{c,b}$ corrections using the heavy quark effective theory. At zero recoil, the $\Lambda_{QCD}/m_{c,b}$ corrections can be…
The analysis of 60 1/pb data collected on the psi(3770) resonance with the CLEO-c detector has produced the first statistically significant signal for D+ -> mu+ nu decay and led to the measurement of the decay branching fraction B(D+ -> mu+…
Some recent theoretical work on inclusive B decays relevant for the model independent determination of |V_{ub}| and |V_{cb}| is summarized. The theoretical predictions and their reliability for several differential decay distributions in B…
A relativistic constituent quark model, formulated on the light-front, is used to derive a new parton approximation for the inclusive semileptonic decay width of the B-meson. A simple connection between the decay rate of a free heavy-quark…
We present measurements of the first six hadronic mass moments in semileptonic $B \rightarrow X_c \ell \nu $ decays. The hadronic mass moments, together with other observables of inclusive $B$ decays, can be used to determine the CKM matrix…
We report new measurements, based on the Run I dataset collected by the LHCb experiment, of the B0 mixing frequency Dm_d and the CKM matrix element |V_ub| using semileptonic b decays. The former is the most precise measurement ever…