B Decays and CP Violation

Abstract

We review the status of the theory and phenomenology of heavy-quark symmetry, exclusive weak decays of $B$ mesons, inclusive decay rates and lifetimes of $b$ hadrons, and CP violation in $B$-meson decays.

65 pages, 23 figures appended, to appear in International Journal of Modern Physics A

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• Weak decays of $B_s$ mesons to $D_s$ mesons in the relativistic quark model
• A Lattice Study of Spectator Effects in Inclusive Decays of B-Mesons
• Wave functions and decay constants of $B$ and $D$ mesons in the relativistic potential model
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• Two-Loop Anomalous Dimension of the Chromo-Magnetic Moment of a Heavy Quark
• New analysis of semileptonic B decays in the relativistic quark model
• On Large Final-State Phases in Heavy Meson Decays
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• Measurement of |Vcb| using B0 to D*l nu decays
• Light-Front Approach for Heavy Pentaquark Transitions
• Implications of the Quark Mass Hierarchy on Flavor Mixings
• An Exploratory Lattice Study of Spectator Effects in Inclusive Decays of the Lambda_b Baryon
• Spectrum of the charmed and b-flavored mesons in the relativistic potential model
• Sea quark effects in B Spectroscopy and Decay Constants
• Determination of |Vcb| using the semileptonic decay \bar{B}^0 --> D^{*+}e^-\barν
• Phenomenological Study of Heavy Hadron Lifetimes
• Lifetimes of singly charmed hadrons
• Spectrum of Higher excitations of $B$ and $D$ mesons in the relativistic potential model
• Direct CP Violation in Λ_b -> n (Λ)π^+π^- Decays via ρ-ωMixing
• Measurement of the Bs0 Meson Lifetime Using Semileptonic Decays
• Four-quark Operators Relevant to B Meson Lifetimes from QCD Sum Rules
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• Probing the MSSM Higgs Boson Sector with Explicit CP Violation through Third Generation Fermion Pair Production at Muon Colliders
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• Isgur-Wise function in a QCD potential model with coulombic potential as perturbation
• Corrections to the Bjorken and Voloshin sum rules
• Semileptonic decays of $B^{(\ast )}$, $D^{(\ast )}$ into $\nu l$ and pseudoscalar or vector mesons
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• Factorization of Radiative Leptonic Decays of $B^{-}$ and $D^{-}$ Mesons
• ${\tau }^{-}\to {\nu }_{\tau }{M}_1{M}_2$, with $M_1,M_2$ pseudoscalar or vector mesons
• Asymptotics of QCD Factorization in Exclusive Hadronic Decays of B Mesons
• The Semileptonic $\overline{B}⟶Dl\overline{\nu }$ and $\overline{B_s}⟶D_{s}l\overline{\nu }$ Decays in Isgur-Wise Approach
• B Lifetimes, Mixing and CP Violation at CDF
• Exclusive and inclusive weak decays of the B-meson
• Nonperturbative QCD Contributions to the Semileptonic Decay Width of the B Meson
• Leading order one-loop CP and P violating effective action in the Standard Model
• Quark-hadron duality at work: lifetimes of bottom baryons
• Factorization of Radiative Leptonic Decays of $B^{-}$ and $D^{-}$ Mesons Including the Soft Photon Region
• Reanalysis of the Four-Quark Operators Relevant to Λ_b Lifetime from QCD Sum Rule
• Revisiting lifetimes of doubly charmed baryons
• CP violating transverse lepton polarizaion in $B\to D^{(\ast )}\ell \bar{\nu }$ including tensor interactions
• A connection between inclusive semileptonic decays of bound and free heavy quarks
• Isgur-Wise function in a QCD inspired potential model with confinement as parent in the Variationally Improved Perturbation Theory (VIPT)
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• The double charm decays of B Mesons in the mSUGRA model
• A heavy quark effective field lagrangian keeping particle and antiparticle mixed sectors
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• Higher Order QCD Corrections to $b\to c\overline{c}s$
• A new look at hadronic B decays
• A Three Doublet Lepton-Specific Model
• Renormalization of the Lattice HQET Isgur-Wise Function
• Effective Field Theory of Heavy Mesons
• Helicity amplitudes in $B\to D^{\ast }\bar{\nu }l$ decay
• Leptonic CP violating effective action for Dirac and Majorana neutrinos
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• Exclusive Decays of Beauty Hadrons
• Aspects of Soft and Spontaneous CP Violation
• Future Perspectives in Lattice Field Theory
• Theory of Inclusive B Decays
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