2000/06/22 by Matthias Neubert, Neubert, Matthias
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0006265
8 pages, 1 figure. Invited review talk presented at the XXXVth Rencontres de Moriond, QCD and High-Energy Hadronic Interactions, Les Arcs, France, 18--25 March 2000
arxiv created 2000/06/22 · openalex publication_date 2000/06/22 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We review recent advances in the theory of strong-interaction effects and final-state interactions in hadronic weak decays of heavy mesons. In the heavy-quark limit, the amplitudes for most nonleptonic, two-body B decays can be calculated from first principles and expressed in terms of semileptonic form factors and light-cone distribution amplitudes. We discuss the features of this novel QCD factorization and illustrate its phenomenological implications.