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.

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• Observation of the Semileptonic Decays B --> D* tau nubar and Evidence for B --> D tau nubar
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• Measurement of |V_cb| and the Form-Factor Slope in Bbar -> D l- nubar Decays in Events Tagged by a Fully Reconstructed B Meson
• Perturbative corrections to semileptonic b decay distributions
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• Precision determination of |V_{ub}| from inclusive decays
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• B -> D* at zero recoil revisited
• Measurement Of |V_ub| From Inclusive Charmless Semileptonic B Decays
• Measurement of the Branching Fractions of Bbar -> D** l^- nubar_l Decays in Events Tagged by a Fully Reconstructed B Meson
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• Lepton energy moments in semileptonic charm decays
• Study of Bbar --> Xu l nubar decays in BBbar events tagged by a fully reconstructed B-meson decay and determination of |V_{ub}|
• Measurement of the B -> pi l nu Branching Fraction and Determination of |Vub| with Tagged B Mesons
• Heavy quark 1/m_Q contributions in semileptonic B decays to orbitally excited D mesons
• Semileptonic form factors D to pi, K and B to pi, K from a fine lattice
• A Search for the Rare Leptonic Decays B+ -> mu+ nu and B+ -> e+ nu
• Inclusive weak decays of heavy hadrons with power suppressed terms at NLO
• Semileptonic width ratios among beauty hadrons
• The Two Roads to "Intrinsic Charm" in B Decays
• Precise predictions for B -> Xc tau nu decay distributions
• Inclusive semileptonic B decays from QCD with NLO accuracy for power suppressed terms
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• A Measurement of the Branching Fractions of exclusive Bbar -> D(*)(pi)l-nubar Decays in Events with a Fully Reconstructed B Meson
• A model for next-to-leading order threshold resummed form factors
• New Heavy Quark Limit Sum Rules involving Isgur-Wise Functions and Decay Constants
• Threshold Resummation in B --> X_c l nu_l Decays
• Measurements of B --> {pi, eta, eta'} l nu Branching Fractions and Determination of |Vub| with Semileptonically Tagged B Mesons
• 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
• Threshold resummed spectra in B -> Xu l nu decays in NLO (II)
• Ratios of heavy hadron semileptonic decay rates
• Improved Estimates for the Parameters of the Heavy Quark Expansion
• Threshold Resummed Spectra in B -> Xu l nu Decays in NLO (I)
• Measurement of Semileptonic Branching Fractions of B Mesons to Narrow D** States
• The structure function of semi-inclusive heavy flavour decays in field theory
• Branching fraction measurement of B -> omega l nu decays
• Rare $B\to \pi l\bar{l}$ and $B\to \rho l\bar{l}$ decays in the relativistic quark model
• Evidence for $B^{+}\to \omega l^{+}\nu$
• Threshold resummed spectra in B ->Xu l nu decays in NLO (III)
• Search for the Rare Leptonic Decays \boldmath{\Blnu} ($\ell =e,\mu$)
• Approximate NNLO Threshold Resummation in Heavy Flavour Decays
• Impact of leptonic $\tau$ decays on the distribution of $B\to P\mu \bar{\nu }$ decays
• NNVub: a Neural Network Approach to $B\to X_u\ell \nu$
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• Form factors $f_{+}^{B\to \pi }(0)$ and $f_{+}^{D\to \pi }(0)$ in $QCD$ and determination of $|V_{ub}|$ and $|V_{cd}|$
• $B\to D^{\ast \ast }$ semileptonic decay in covariant quark models à la Bakamjian Thomas
• Role of "Intrinsic Charm" in Semi-Leptonic B-Meson Decays
• ${\Lambda }_b\to p{l}^{-}\bar{\nu }$ form factors from lattice QCD with static b quarks
• Continuum limit of the leading order HQET form factor in $B_s\to K\ell \nu$ decays
• Matching of the Shape Function
• A Measurement of the Semileptonic Branching Fraction of the B_s Meson
• Analyzing $b\to u$ transitions in semileptonic ${\bar{B}}_s\to K^{\ast +}(\to K\pi ){\ell }^{-}{\bar{\nu }}_{\ell }$ decays
• Method of Studying ${\Lambda }_b^0$ decays with one missing particle
• Exclusive semileptonic decays of B mesons to orbitally excited D mesons in the relativistic quark model
• Measurement of the inclusive semileptonic branching fraction $\mathcal{B}(B_s^0\to X^{-}{\ell }^{+}{\nu }_{\ell })$ at Belle
• Minimal prescription corrected spectra in heavy quark decays
• Determination of the CKM matrix elements |V(xb)|
• Brief review on semileptonic B decays
• Semi-inclusive studies of semileptonic $B_s$ decays at Belle
• Measurement of the B+ --> omega l+ nu branching fraction with semileptonically tagged B mesons
• Progress on semi-leptonic $B_{(s)}$ decays
• $1/m$ Corrections for Orbitally Excited Heavy Mesons and the $1/2$ - $3/2$ Puzzle

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• Model-Independent Extraction of $|V_{cb}|$ from $\bar{B}\to D^{\ast }\ell \overline{\nu }$
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