Status and Prospects for Lattice Calculations in Heavy Quark Physics

Abstract

The current status of lattice calculation of weak matrix elements for heavy quark systems is reviewed. After an assessment of systematic errors in present simulations, results for the B meson decay constant, the B-parameter B_B and semi-leptonic heavy-to-light and heavy-to-heavy transitions are discussed. The final topic are lattice results for heavy baryon spectroscopy.

Invited talk presented at the III German-Russian Workshop "Heavy Quark Physics", Dubna, Russia, 20-22 May 1996. 8 pages, uuencoded, gzipped tar file containing LaTeX source and style file