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On a lattice with 2+1-flavor dynamical domain-wall fermions at the physical pion mass, we calculate the decay constants of $D_{s}^{(*)}$, $D^{(*)}$ and $\phi$. The lattice size is $48^3\times96$, which corresponds to a spatial extension of…
In this work, we analyze the strong vertices $\Sigma_{c}\Delta D^{*}$ and $\Sigma_{b}\Delta B^{*}$ using the three-point QCD sum rules under the tensor structures $i\epsilon^{\rho\tau\alpha\beta}p_{\alpha}p'_{\beta}$, $p^{\rho}p'^{\tau}$…
This note collects formulas relative to the energy dependence of the cross sections for open charm and $J/\psi$ production for $NN$-collisions at threshold. It is a basis for the best input to MonteCarlo calculations, for associative charm…
We present a sum-rule calculation of the decay constants of the charmed vector mesons $D^*$ and $D^*_s$ from the two-point correlator of vector currents. First, we show that the perturbative expansion in terms of the pole mass exhibits no…
We determine the MS-bar charm quark mass from a charmonium QCD sum rules analysis. On the theoretical side we use input from perturbation theory at O(alpha_s^3). Improvements with respect to previous O(alpha_s^3) analyses include (1) an…
We calculate $\bar{B}_s^0\to \phi$ translation form factors $V$, $A_0$, $A_1$, $A_2$ based on QCD sum rule and study the nonleptonic two-body decay of $\bar{B}_s^0\to J/\psi \phi$ with the form factors obtained. We calculate the…
The charge, magnetic and quadrupole form factors of vector mesons and the charge form factor of pseudo-scalar mesons are calculated in quenched lattice QCD. The charge radii and magnetic moments are derived. The quark sector contributions…
The semileptonic decays of $B_q$ mesons ($q=u,d,s$) to $J^P=2^+$ charmed mesons are investigated. The form factors parametrising the hadronic matrix elements of the weak vector and axial-vector quark currents are evaluated using light-cone…
The method of QCD sum rules in the presence of the external electromagnetic $F_{\mu\nu}$ field is used to analyze radiative decays of charmed or bottomed mesons such as $D^{\ast}\to D\gamma$ and $B^{\ast}\to B\gamma$, with the…
This talk summarizes the study of the dynamics of the heavy-light \bar Qq open charm and beauty mesons obtained in [1] using QCD spectral sum rules (QSSR) and motivated by the recent experimental discovery of the D{sJ}(2317) and D{sJ}(2457)…
The form factors relevant to $B_{q}\to D^{\ast}_{q}(J^{P}=1^{-}) ell\nu$ $(q=s, d, u)$ decays are calculated in the framework of the three point QCD sum rules approach. The heavy quark effective theory prediction of the form factors as well…
The electromagnetic form factors of vector mesons are calculated in an explicitly Poincar\'e covariant formulation, based on the Dyson--Schwinger equations of QCD, that respects electromagnetic current conservation, and unambiguously…
We employ QCD sum rules to calculate the coupling constant g$_{\rho\sigma\gamma}$ by studying the three point ${\rho\sigma\gamma}$-correlation function. Our results is consistent with the value of this coupling constant obtained using…
Applications of QCD sum rules to exclusive decays of heavy mesons are reviewed. In detail, we discuss the calculations of the B and $D$ decay constants, the heavy-to-light form factors $f^+(p^2)$ and $f^0(p^2)$, and the strong couplings…
Using the general form of the baryon currents, we calculate the meson-baryon coupling constants and the F/D ratio within the framework of light cone QCD sum rules in the SU(3) flavor symmetry limit. The dependence of the results on the…
The coupling of various charmonium mesons to a photon is studied using lattice QCD, giving access to radiative form factors and transitions, and probing the mesons' structure. Methods are developed which allow the robust determination of…
We calculate the coupling constants of $D^*D_sK$ and $D_s^*DK$ vertices using the QCD sum rules technique. We compare results obtained in the limit of SU(4) symmetry and found that the symmetry is broken on the order of 40%.
The four-flavor hard-wall holographic QCD is studied to evaluate the couplings of $(D^{_{-(*-)}}, \bar{D}^{_0}, a_1^{_-})$, $(D^{_{-(*-)}}, \bar{D}^{_0}, b_1^{_-})$, $(D_{s}^{_{-(*-)}},\bar{D}^{_0}, K_{1A}^{_-})$, $(D_s^{_{-(*-)}},…
The method of QCD sum rules has proven to be particularly useful in heavy quark physics, where a small distance scale is provided by the inverse heavy quark mass. We present two new examples for the application of this method to B-physics:…
We compute the decoupling relations for the strong coupling, the light quark masses, the gauge-fixing parameter, and the light fields in QCD with heavy charm and bottom quarks to three-loop accuracy taking into account the exact dependence…