Nonleptonic Decays and Lifetimes of b-quark and c-quark Hadrons

Abstract

We review recent experimental results on lifetimes and hadronic decays of hadrons that contain $c$ and $b$ quarks. The theoretical implications of these results are also considered. An understanding of hadronic decays of heavy quarks is required to interpret the CP violating asymmetries in $B$ decays that will be observed in experiments planned for the near future.

74 pages, LATEX format with 12 figures. To appear in Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, Vol. 46. Also available at http://www-physics.mps.ohio-state.edu/~phys111/b-physics/bphysics.html and by anonymous ftp from ftp://pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu/pub/hepex/kh A serious typographical error on p. 8 is corrected. Other errors and typos are also corrected

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