QCD and Heavy Hadron Decays

Abstract

We review recent developments in QCD pertaining to its application to weak decays of heavy hadrons. We concentrate on exclusive rare and nonleptonic B-meson decays, discussing both the theoretical framework and phenomenological issues of current interest.

13 pages, 8 figures, talk at Lepton Photon 03, 11-16 August 2003, Fermilab

References in corpus (8)

• Multipole-expanded soft-collinear effective theory with non-abelian gauge symmetry
• Renormalization-Group Evolution of the B-Meson Light-Cone Distribution Amplitude
• SU(3) Relations and the CP Asymmetries in B Decays to ${\eta }^{\prime }{K}_S$, $\varphi K_S$ and $K^{+}{K}^{-}{K}_S$
• Factorization and Sudakov Resummation in Leptonic Radiative B Decay
• Rates and Asymmetries in $B\to K\pi$ Decays
• Evidence for CP-Violating Asymmetries in B0->pi+pi- Decays and Constraints on the CKM Angle phi2
• Testing QCD factorisation and charming penguins in charmless $\mathbf{B}\to \mathbf{PV}$
• The factorizable amplitude in $B^0\to {\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$

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• B-Meson Distribution Amplitudes of Geometric Twist vs. Dynamical Twist