Theory of Semi-- and Nonleptonic Decays of Heavy Mesons

1994/09/07 by P. Ball, Ball, P.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9409247

(Talk held at ICHEP 94, Glasgow, Scotland, July 94). 6 p., TUM-T31-74/94, Latex, uses epsf.sty and a4wide.sty, one uuencoded figure included

arxiv created 1994/09/07 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

I review some of the recent developments in the theoretical description of weak inclusive decays of heavy mesons. The topics cover the value of |V_cb| as extracted from semileptonic inclusive decays and a short discussion of the theoretical errors. I also present the results of a recent calculation of next--to--leading order corrections to nonleptonic inclusive B decays which allows an improved prediction of the semileptonic branching ratio of B mesons.

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• Memo on Extracting |V(cb)| and |V(ub)/V(cb)| from semileptonic B decays