Related papers: Current Status of Radiative B Decays
This report summarizes the latest experimental results on radiative and electroweak rare B meson decays. These rare decay processes proceed through the flavor changing neutral current processes, and thus sensitive to the postulated new…
We summarize the status of semileptonic and leptonic $B$ decays, including $|V_{cb}|$ and $|V_{ub}|$ exclusive and inclusive determinations, decays to excited states of the charm meson spectrum and decays into $\tau$ leptons.
We present within the Standard Model the exclusive radiative decays B -> K*/rho gamma and B_(s/d) -> gamma gamma in QCD factorization based on the heavy-quark limit m_b >> Lambda_QCD. For the decays with a vector meson in the final state we…
The present status of double beta decay experiments is reviewed. The results of the most sensitive experiments are discussed. Proposals for future double beta decay experiments with a sensitivity to the $< m_{\nu} >$ at the level of…
A review of the present status of the spectroscopy of heavy quarkonia (b-bbar, c-cbar) is presented.
I review recent developments in lattice calculations of B decay matrix elements and other related quantities.
Recent analyses of the LEP and Y(4S) data have better outlined the picture of semileptonic B decays. Results on inclusive and exclusive decay branching fractions and on the extraction of the Vub and Vcb elements of the CKM mixing matrix are…
The physics potential of neutrinoless double beta decay is discussed. Furthermore, experimental considerations are presented as well as the current status of experiments. Finally an outlook towards the future, work on nuclear matrix…
In this talk I review recent developments in the calculation of radiative corrections to $K, D, B$ meson decays and discuss their impact on precision phenomenology.
The full prediction of the inclusive radiative B -> Xs gamma decay rate at NNLO requires a complete evaluation of missing charm quark mass dependent matrix elements. Recent developments in the on-going computations are reported and the…
BABAR results are presented for B -> Xs gamma decays, including branching fraction and photon spectrum measurements from both a fully inclusive analysis and a semi-inclusive analysis that reconstructs 38 distinct final states for Xs.
We discuss the non-perturbative and the radiative corrections to inclusive B decays from the point of view known from QED corrections to high energy e^+ e^- processes. Here the leading contributions can be implemented through the so called…
A review is presented of the current status of experimental searches for physics beyond the standard model in rare $\tau$ decays.
The current status of lattice and dispersive bound calculations for exclusive semileptonic B decays is reviewed. Emphasis is placed on decays relevant for the measurement of the sides of the unitarity triangle determined by |V_{ub}| and…
The current situation of the double beta decay direct counting experiments is briefly reviewed. A comparison with the theoretical predictions in some representative nuclear models is presented.
In this talk I review recent progress made in extracting V_{ub} from the cut electron energy and hadronic mass spectra of inclusive B meson decays utilizing the data from radiative decays. It is shown that an extraction is possible without…
In this report, experimental prospects for the inclusive analysis of the radiative B decays and electroweak penguin decays at the super B factories are presented.
Rare b decays provide a unique opportunity to measure Standard Model parameters and probe beyond the Standard Model. We review here the experimentalprogress made in measuring these decays, and the importance of future measurements,…
A review of recent experimental results on radiative Penguin decays, and their interpretation within the Standard Model
An overview of exclusive two-body and three-body baryonic B decays is given. The threshold enhancement effect in the dibaryon invariant mass and the angular distributions in the dibaryon rest frame are stressed and explained. Weak radiative…