2005/07/22 by A. Ali Khan, Khan, A. Ali
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Spectral Theory in Mathematical Physics #hep-lat #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/0507031
Review article submitted to the Humboldt University of Berlin. LaTeX, 49 figures. Correction of typos, some of them serious, additional fit of unrenormalized 1/M corrections to the NRQCD decay matrix elements included
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Light and heavy-light (b) hadrons are among the most interesting and among the most challenging quantities to calculate in lattice gauge theory. One would like to avoid discretization effects from very heavy quarks and to calculate chiral extrapolations and to calculate finite volume effects from light quarks or to minimize these effects. For this one uses effective theories: Chiral Perturbation Theory and Nonrelativistic QCD or Heavy Quark Effective Theory. Lattice results are reviewed on hadrons containing light quarks and light and b quarks, and discussed in the framework of effective theories.