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Angular and energy distributions for leptons and bottom quarks in the process e^+e^- --> t t-bar --> l^{+-}/b(b-bar) ... have been calculated assuming the most general top-quark couplings. The double distributions depend both on…

We consider propagation of heavy quarks in QCD matter. Because of large quark mass, the radiative quark energy loss appears to be qualitatively different from that of light quarks at all energies of practical importance. Finite quark mass…

Using heavy quark symmetry we construct an energy sum rule relating the form factor of a heavy flavored meson $\xi(w)$ to the light quark energy distribution. We find that the current available data for $\xi(w)$ is consistent with a broad…

We address the question of representativeness of a single long unstable periodic orbit for properties of the chaotic attractor it is embedded in. Y. Saiki and M. Yamada [Phys. Rev. E 79, 015201(R) (2009)] have recently suggested the…

The radiative B_c -> l nu gamma decay is investigated in the Standard Model in framework of the light cone QCD. The transition form factors and decay width are calculated. A comparison of light cone QCD and constituent quark model…

We compute the one-loop (hard) matching correction to heavy-to-light transition currents in soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) to sub-leading power in the SCET expansion parameter for an arbitrary Dirac structure of the QCD weak…

We derive the strange quark transverse momentum distribution for the $% b\to s\gamma $ decay. A resummed formula is presented showing the singularity structure in the impact parameter $b$. We observe the appearance of a new next-to-leading…

We report on recent progress on the splitting functions for the evolution of parton distributions and related quantities, the (lightlike) cusp anomalous dimensions, in perturbative QCD. New results are presented for the four-loop…

The relation of generalized (skewed) quark distributions to nucleon wave functions is discussed in the context of light-cone quantization.

The status of the heavy quark expansion for inclusive B decays is briefly reviewed from the perspective of confronting theory with data and of extracting the heavy quark parameters. A good agreement between properly applied theory and new…

We develop perturbative QCD factorization theorems for inclusive b-hadron decays, in which radiative corrections characterized by the hadronic scale, the b-hadron mass, and the W boson mass are absorbed into a heavy hadron distribution…

B --> pi l nu decay is studied in the effective theory of heavy quark with infinite mass limit. The leading order heavy flavor-spin independent universal wave functions which parametrize the relevant matrix elements are evaluated via light…

We present three-loop (NNNLO) corrections to the heavy-to-heavy quark transitions in the limit of equal initial and final quark masses. In analogy with the previously found NNLO corrections, the bulk of the result is due to the beta_0^2…

The short-distance expansion of the heavy-light currents $\bar q\,\gamma^\mu Q$ and $\bar q\,\gamma^\mu\gamma_5\,Q$ is constructed to order $1/m_Q$, and to next-to-leading order in renormalization-group improved perturbation theory. It is…

Angular distributions of a B meson decaying into two vector mesons are discussed with emphasis on time evolution effects on the complete set of amplitude bilinears. Time integrated quantities are suggested to observe substantial CP…

We consider the currents formed by a heavy and a light quark within Quantum Chromodynamics and compute the matching to Heavy Quark Effective Theory to three-loop accuracy. As an application we obtain the third-order perturbative corrections…

In this work, we calculate the branching ratios and CP asymmetries of the decays of $B \to \pi \pi$ and $\pi K$ in the frame of QCD factorization in the heavy quark limit. We also compare the results with the estimates by using conventional…

We discuss possibilities of measurement of deeply virtual Compton scattering amplitudes via different asymmetries in order to access the underlying skewed parton distributions. Perturbative one-loop coefficient functions and two-loop…

Renormalization group evolution of QCD composite light-cone operators, built from two and more quark and gluon fields, is responsible for the logarithmic scaling violations in diverse physical observables. We analyze spectra of anomalous…

We examine observational consequences of the cosmological light-cone effect on the power spectrum of the distribution of galaxies and quasars from upcoming redshift surveys. First we derive an expression for the power spectrum of…