Theoretical Review of B-physics

Abstract

Weak decays and mixing of B-hadrons play a special role in our understanding of the physics of the Standard Model and beyond. The measured amplitudes, however, result from a complicated interplay of weak and strong interaction effects. Understanding strong interaction dynamics, which becomes simpler for heavy quarks, is thus a fundamental part of the game. In this review, several theoretical aspects of B dynamics which are relevant for current and future experimental measurements are discussed.

LaTeX, 27 pages, 5 figures. Summary talk given at BEAUTY 96, June 17-21 1996, Rome (Italy), to appear in the Proceedings

References in corpus (11)

• The $\rho$ Meson Light-Cone Distribution Amplitudes of Leading Twist Revisited
• Quenched Chiral Perturbation Theory for Heavy-light Mesons
• Implications of the $B\to X\ell {\bar{\nu }}_{\ell }$ lepton spectrum for heavy quark physics
• Two-loop QCD corrections to $b\to c$ transitions at zero recoil
• Improved Bounds for the Slope and Curvature of $\bar{B}\to D^{(\ast )}\ell \bar{\nu }$ Form Factors
• Phenomenology of the $1/m_Q$ Expansion in Inclusive $B$ and $D$ Meson Decays
• Perturbative corrections to zero recoil inclusive $B$ decay sum rules
• Failure of Local Duality in Inclusive Non-Leptonic Heavy Flavour
• Measurement of the Omega_c Lifetime
• Theoretical Review of B-Physics
• Two-body non-leptonic decays on the lattice

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• Leptonic Decays of Heavy Quarks on the Lattice
• Combined analysis of the unitarity triangle and CP violation in the Standard Model
• Nonspectator Effects and B Meson Lifetimes from a Field-theoretic Calculation
• Nonleptonic two-body charmed meson decays in an effective model for their semileptonic decays
• A High Statistics Lattice Calculation of Heavy-Light Meson Decay Constants
• The role of K^*_0(1430) in D->PK and τ->KPν_τdecays
• Nonperturbative QCD Contributions to the Semileptonic Decay Width of the B Meson
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• Heavy-Light Meson Decay Constants on the Lattice
• Determination of V_cb from exclusive decays in a relativistic quark model
• Quenched Hadron Spectrum and Decay Constants on the lattice