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This review summarizes the most important results in B physics obtained at the Tevatron. They include the discovery of the new B hadrons, the measurement of their masses and lifetimes, the measurement of the oscillation frequency of $\Bs$…
Phases of elements of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix can be obtained using decays of $B$ mesons to $\pi^+ \pi^-$, $\pi^\pm K^\mp$, and $\pi^+ K^0$ or $\pi^- \overline{K}^0$. For $B^0~{\rm or}~ \overline{B}^0 \to \pi^+ \pi^-$,…
The SuperB experiment at the Cabibbo Laboratory will provide new possibilities to study the physics of charm. The potential physics reach of the experiment when performing studies of rare decays, mixing and CP violation in charm decays is…
Precision measurements in charm physics offer a window into a unique sector of potential New Physics interactions. LHCb is well equipped to take advantage of the enormous production cross-section of charm mesons in $pp$ collisions at…
It is well known that large nonfragmentational contributions to inclusive production of charmed particles appear at low energies. In the case of charm production in $B$-meson decays these contributions arise from the participation of the…
The CKM angle $\gamma$ is important for testing the unitarity of the CKM matrix and searching for new physics. $\gamma$ can be extracted by the interference between $b\to u$ and $b\to c$ in the B factory such as LHCb and Belle-II.…
We discuss the opportunities for experiments at the frontier of physics using K-meson beams after the current round of precision experiments looking for CP violation in the K meson decay amplitude and for flavor-changing neutral currents…
Using an inclusive method, BR(b -> D\bar{D}X) has been measured in hadronic Z^0 decays with the OPAL detector at LEP. The impact parameter significance of tracks opposite tagged b-jets is used to differentiate b -> D\bar{D}X decays from…
We study the correlations of $b\bar b$ pairs produced in inclusive $Z^0$ decays, and their possible influence upon the determination of $R_b$.
We present the new analysis of the semileptonic B decays in the framework of the relativistic quark model based on the quasipotential approach. Decays both to heavy D^{(*)} and light \pi(\rho) mesons are considered. All relativistic effects…
Recent measurements in the charm sector at BaBar are reviewed. The scope of the presentation includes the observation of two new narrow mesons in the D+(s)pi0 and D+(s)pi0gamma final states as well as the measurement of D0-D0bar mixing…
The study of charmless two-body decays of B mesons is currently one of the hottest topics in B physics. QCD factorization provides the theoretical framework for a systematic analysis of such decays. A global fit to B->pi K,pi pi branching…
$B$ processes are a rich source of potential anomalies that could lead to the discovery of BSM physics. The long-standing tension between the inclusive and the exclusive determinations of the CKM matrix elements $|V_{xb}|$, or the current…
I summarize results and performance of the dynamical theory of charmless hadronic B decays, based on QCD factorization in the heavy quark limit. On the theoretical side, a number of NNLO (alpha_s^2) amplitudes are now available, all showing…
We review recent experimental progress in the domain of rare radiative, semileptonic and leptonic B decays. The statistical precision attained for these decays has reached a level where they start to impose meaningful constraints on the…
Weak decays and mixing of B-hadrons play a special role in our understanding of the physics of the Standard Model and beyond. The measured amplitudes, however, result from a complicated interplay of weak and strong interaction effects.…
We review the prospects of measurements of the CKM matrix elements corresponding to the first two generations of quarks, as well as measurements of leptonic and semileptonic charm meson decays at LHCb. We review the status of searches for…
The determination of the Vub element of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) quark mixing matrix plays a central role in testing the Standard Model (SM) interpretation of CP violation. Measurements at B-Factories are contributing with…
A review of charm semileptonic decays results obtained at B factories is presented. It focuses on form factors measurements in $D^0\to K^- \ell^+ \nu$, $D^0\to \pi^- \ell^+ \nu$, $D_s^+ \to K^+K^- e^+\nu_e$, and $D^+ \to K^-\pi^+ e^+\nu_e$.…
The latest measurements of the masses and lifetimes of weakly decaying $B$~hadrons from experiments at $e^+e^-$ and $p\bar{p}$ colliders are presented. These measurements include the lifetimes of the $\bar{B}^0$, $\bar{B}^0_s$, $B^-$, and…