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The masses and decay constants of the light vector mesons $\rho/\omega$, $\phi$ and $K^\star$ are studied within a ladder-rainbow truncation of the coupled Dyson-Schwinger and Bethe-Salpeter equations of QCD with a model 2-point gluon…
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The scalar heavy quark content of the nucleon, ${\cal M}_q = \bra{N} m_q \bar q q \ket{N},$ is relevant for computing the interaction of dark matter candidates with ordinary matter, while ${\cal M}_s$ is important for predicting the…
The $O(1/m_Q)$ corrections to masses of excited heavy mesons are studied with sum rules in the heavy quark effective theory. Numerical results for the matrix elements of the heavy quark kinetic energy operator K and chromomagnetic…
A chiral field theory of mesons has been applied to study the contribution of the current quark masses to the $\pi^0\rightarrow\gamma\gamma$ decay width at the next leading order. $2\%$ enhancement has been predicted and there is no new…
Theoretical predictions for inclusive semileptonic B decay rates are rewritten in terms of the Upsilon(1S) meson mass instead of the b quark mass, using a modified perturbation expansion. This method gives theoretically consistent and…
In this article, we study the vector meson transitions among the charmonium and bottomonium states with the heavy quark effective theory in an systematic way, and make predictions for the ratios among the vector meson decay widths of a…
A visible improvement of the QCD sum-rule framework, achieved only recently by a slightly more sophisticated consideration of the hadron excitations and continuum, is applied to the extraction of the decay constants of heavy-light…
We calculate the form factors for the semileptonic decays of heavy-light pseudoscalar mesons in partially quenched staggered chiral perturbation theory (\schpt), working to leading order in $1/m_Q$, where $m_Q$ is the heavy quark mass. We…
We report results of our ongoing investigation concerning semileptonic decays of heavy pseudoscalar mesons into pseudoscalar and vector mesons. Particular attention is paid to uncertainties in the $q^2$ and the heavy quark mass dependence…
In this work radiative corrections in the total hadronic decay rate of the tau-lepton and some moments of its differential distributions are studied employing perturbative QCD and the operator product expansion. We calculate quadratic quark…
Recently, $O(\alpha^3)$ corrections to the muon decay rate and $O(\alpha_s^3)$ to heavy quark decays have been determined by Fael, Sch\"onwald, and Steinhauser. This is the first such perturbative improvement of these important quantities…
We present results for the mass spectrum and decay constants using non-perturbatively O(a) improved Wilson fermions. Three values of $\beta$ and 30 different quark masses are used to obtain the chiral and continuum limits. Special emphasis…
We present a sum-rule extraction of heavy-meson decay constants from the two-point correlator of heavy-light pseudoscalar currents. Our main concern is to control the uncertainties of the decay constants, induced by both input QCD…
First non-trivial chiral corrections to the magnetic moments of triplet (T) and sextet ($S^{(*)}$) heavy baryons are presented using Heavy Hadron Chiral Perturbation Theory. The contributions are calculated up to order ${\cal O}(1/(m_Q…
Recent developments in the evaluation of vector-meson spectral functions in hot and dense matter are discussed with emphasis on connections to the chiral phase transition in QCD. Model independent approaches including chiral low-density…
In this article, we take the tensor currents $\bar{Q}(x)\sigma_{\mu\nu}Q(x)$ to interpolate the $P$-wave spin-singlet heavy quarkonium states $h_Q$, and study the masses and decay constants with the Borel sum rules and moments sum rules.…
The first complete calculation of the quadratic quark mass correction to the correlator of the two currents relevant for the strangeness-changing semihadronic tau-decay rate is presented including its real part at the four-loop level. This…
Using a ladder-rainbow kernel previously established for the soft scale of light quark hadrons, we explore the extension to masses and electroweak decay constants of ground state pseudoscalar and vector quarkonia and heavy-light mesons in…
The accuracy of effective chiral lagrangians including vector-mesons as (hidden symmetry) gauge fields is shown to be improved by taking into account SU(3)-breaking in the vector-meson sector. The masses, $M_V$, and couplings to the photon…