Effective Theory for Heavy Quarks Contents - CERN Document ServerJan 31, 2000 ... We review the theory and phenomenology of heavy-quark symmetry, exclusive
weak decays of B mesons, ... dard Model. On the other hand, hadronic weak
decays also serve as a probe of that part of .... symmetry of the QCD Lagrangian
in the limit of vanishing quark masses, heavy-quark symmetry is not a ...Experimental studies on the heavy quark ... - Springer LinkThe weak pro- cesses that need to be studied involve transitions among quarks
of different flavours; however, to connect the observed transitions among hadrons
to the ... in the infinite mass limit two additional symmetries appear [2], which play
... expansion also to inclusive decays of heavy hadrons [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10], and.meson physics - Springer Linkbeauty hadrons. It is heavy enough to confidently use the expansion in 1/mb, yet
it appears not too heavy for the leading corrections to the heavy quark limit to be
... What happens when such a hadronic state is disturbed? In weak decays the
standard situation is that the external (to QCD) forces like W-bosons interact with.Heavy Quark Symmetry - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratorythe strong coupling constant, taken at the scale of the heavy quark ?s(mQ) and
the ratio ¯?/mQ .... In this limit new symmetries appear which are the key to
various model independent statements concerning weak decay matrix elements;
these symmetries are .... heavy hadron, and which is a ?small? quantity of order
?QCD.Nonperturbative Heavy-Quark Interactions in the QGPlations on heavy quark fragmentation functions and also compared with ...
models as well as in theoretical studies on heavy hadron production (see ...
pressed due to their large masses [3]. Thus, heavy mesons contain either the
primary quark of the hard scattering process itself or its weak decay product and
are the most ...
