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Lattice QCD calculations in charm and bottom physics are particularly important because they can provide the hadronic weak decay matrix elements needed for key constraints on the CKM Unitarity Triangle. I will summarise recent results in…
Form factors parameterizing radiative leptonic decays of heavy mesons $% (B^{+}\to \gamma l^{+}\nu_{l}) $ for photon energy are computed in the language of dispersion relation. The contributing states to the absorptive part in the…
We discuss our ongoing effort to calculate form factors for several B and Bs semileptonic decays. We have recently completed the first unquenched calculation of the form factors for the rare decay B -> K ll. Extrapolated over the full…
Model-independent bounds are presented for the form-factors describing the semileptonic decay $\Lambda_b\to\Lambda_ce\bar\nu_e$ at the end-point of the lepton energy spectrum. For the axial-vector form-factor $f_1^A(1)$ we obtain…
In this paper, we studied the semileptonic decays $B \to D^{(*)} l^- \bar{\nu}_l$ by using the "pQCD+Lattice QCD" method. We made the extrapolation for the six relevant form factors by using the input values obtained from the pQCD…
The experimental uncertainty on the branching fraction $\b(\Lambda_c \to p K^- \pi^+) = (5.0 \pm 1.3)%$ has not decreased since 1998, despite a much larger data sample. Uncertainty in this quantity dominates that in many other quantities,…
Hadronic form factors for semileptonic decay of the $\Lambda_c$ are calculated in a nonrelativistic quark model. The full quark model wave functions are employed to numerically calculate the form factors to all relevant orders in ($1/m_c$,…
In light of the LHCb observations about the $B_s \to D_s^{(*)}\ell \nu_\ell$ semileptonic decays, we study these channels within the Standard Model framework of covariant confined quark model. The necessary transition form factors are…
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…
We present a model-independent global analysis of hadronic form factors for the semileptonic decays $b\rightarrow c\ell\nu$ that exploits lattice-QCD data, dispersion relations, and heavy-quark symmetries. The analysis yields predictions…
In recent years, we used lattice QCD to calculate some quantities that were unknown or poorly known. They are the $q^2$ dependence of the form factor in semileptonic $D\to Kl\nu$ decay, the leptonic decay constants of the $D^+$ and $D_s$…
We investigate the decays $B_c^- \rightarrow D_{s}^{(*)-}\ell^+\ell^-$ and $B_c^- \rightarrow D_{s}^{(*)-}\nu\bar{\nu}$ within the Standard Model (SM), employing perturbative QCD form factors that are sensitive to the wave functions of…
In the covariant light-front quark model, we investigate the form factors of $B_c$ decays into $D, D^*, D_s, D_s^*, \eta_c, J/\psi, B, B^*, B_s, B_s^*$ mesons. The form factors in the spacelike region $q^2<0$ are directly evaluated. To…
We calculate the $\Lambda_b \to \Lambda_c^*(2595) l \nu$ and $\Lambda_b \to \Lambda_c^*(2625) l \nu$ form factors and decay rates for all possible $b \to c l \bar\nu$ four-Fermi interactions in and beyond the Standard Model (SM), including…
The baryon differential spectrum of the baryon decay $\Lambda_b \to \Lambda_c \ell \bar{\nu}_\ell$ will be measured in detail at LHCb. We obtain new results on the form factors in the heavy quark expansion of Heavy Quark Effective Theory…
The recent experimental developments require a more precise theoretical study of weak decays of heavy baryon $\Lambda_b^0$. In this work, we provide an updated and systematic analysis of both the semi-leptonic and nonleptonic decays of…
We calculate, for the first time using unquenched lattice QCD, form factors for the rare decay B -> Kll in and beyond the Standard Model. Our lattice QCD calculation utilizes a nonrelativistic QCD formulation for the b valence quarks, the…
Form factors of the rare $\Lambda_{b}(\Lambda_{b}^*)\to N\ell^{+}\ell^{-}$ decays are calculated in the framework of the light cone QCD sum rules by taking into account of the contributions from the negative parity baryons. Using the…
The form factors of the semileptonic $B$, $B_s$ and $B_c$ meson decays are calculated in the framework of the relativistic quark model based on the quasipotential approach in QCD. They are expressed through the overlap integrals of the…
In this work, we analyze the semileptonic decay processes of $\Lambda_b \to \Lambda_c$ in the light-cone sum rule approach. In order to calculate the form factors of the $\Lambda_b$ baryon transition matrix element, we use the light-cone…