Heavy-Quark Effective Theory

1996/10/17 by Matthias Neubert, Neubert, Matthias
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9610385

40 pages, 9 figures; Invited talk presented at the 20th Johns Hopkins Workshop on Current Problems in Particle Theory, Heidelberg, Germany, 27-29 June 1996

arxiv created 1996/10/17 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We give an introduction to the heavy-quark effective theory and the 1/m_Q expansion, which provide the modern framework for a systematic, model-independent description of the properties and decays of hadrons containing a heavy quark. We discuss the applications of these concepts to spectroscopy and to the weak decays of B mesons.

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