Semileptonic and leptonic $B$ decays, circa 2016

Abstract

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.

18 pages, no figures; small changes, including added references, to match published version

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• On the B to D* tau nu Sensitivity to New Physics
• Angular Distributions of B -> K ll Decays
• Confronting lepton flavor universality violation in B decays with high-$p_T$ tau lepton searches at LHC
• Implications of lepton flavor universality violations in B decays
• Leptoquark model to explain the $B$-physics anomalies, $R_K$ and $R_D$
• Evidence for B- -> tau- nu_tau-bar with a Hadronic Tagging Method Using the Full Data Sample of Belle
• Precision determination of the CKM element Vcb
• Observation of new resonances decaying to $D\pi$ and $D^{\ast }\pi$ in inclusive $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ collisions near $\sqrt{s}=$10.58 GeV
• $B\to \pi \ell {\nu }_l$ Width and $|V_{ub}|$ from QCD Light-Cone Sum Rules
• Phenomenology of an $SU(2)\times SU(2)\times U(1)$ model with lepton-flavour non-universality
• Study of B --> pi l nu and B --> rho l nu Decays and Determination of |V_ub|
• B -> D tau nu Branching Ratios: Opportunity for Lattice QCD and Hadron Colliders
• $B\to \pi \ell \nu$ and $B_s\to K\ell \nu$ form factors and $|V_{ub}|$ from 2+1-flavor lattice QCD with domain-wall light quarks and relativistic heavy quarks
• Mass effects in muon and semileptonic b -> c decays
• Inclusive semileptonic B decays and the determination of |V_ub|
• The B -> pi l nu semileptonic form factor from three-flavor lattice QCD: A model-independent determination of |V(ub)|
• Branching fraction and form-factor shape measurements of exclusive charmless semileptonic B decays, and determination of |V_{ub}|
• Can the differences in the determinations of $V_{ub}$ and $V_{cb}$ be explained by New Physics?
• Amplitude analysis of $B^{-}\to D^{+}{\pi }^{-}{\pi }^{-}$ decays
• $B_s\to K\ell \nu$ form factors from lattice QCD
• The B -> D* l nu form factor at zero recoil from three-flavor lattice QCD: A model independent determination of |V_cb|
• Higher Order Power Corrections in Inclusive B Decays
• Semileptonic decays of ${\Lambda }_b$ baryons in the relativistic quark model
• Heavy-to-heavy quark decays at NNLO
• Extrapolation and unitarity bounds for the $B\to \pi$ form factor
• Semi-Inclusive B Decays and a Model for Soft-Gluon Effects
• Inclusive Measure of |V_ub| with the Analytic Coupling Model
• Memorino on the `1/2 vs. 3/2 Puzzle' in $\bar{B}\to l\bar{\nu }{X}_c$ -- a Year Later and a Bit Wiser
• Quenched lattice calculation of the B --> D l nu decay rate
• Precise predictions for B -> Xc tau nu decay distributions
• Inclusive semileptonic B decays from QCD with NLO accuracy for power suppressed terms
• Measurement of the B0_s semileptonic branching ratio to an orbitally excited D_s** state, Br(B0_s -> Ds1(2536) mu nu)
• New ways to search for right-handed current in B -> rho ell nu decay
• Quenched lattice calculation of semileptonic heavy-light meson form factors
• Threshold Resummation in B --> X_c l nu_l Decays
• CP violation in $B\to D\tau {\nu }_{\tau }$ using multi-pion tau decays
• Quenched lattice calculation of the vector channel B --> D* l nu decay rate
• Improved Estimates for the Parameters of the Heavy Quark Expansion
• Ratios of heavy hadron semileptonic decay rates
• Form factors $f_{+}^{B\to \pi }(0)$ and $f_{+}^{D\to \pi }(0)$ in $QCD$ and determination of $|V_{ub}|$ and $|V_{cd}|$
• Role of "Intrinsic Charm" in Semi-Leptonic B-Meson Decays
• $1/m$ Corrections for Orbitally Excited Heavy Mesons and the $1/2$ - $3/2$ Puzzle

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