Alexander Lenz
Lifetimes and heavy quark expansion
Lenz, Alexander
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Abstract
Kolya Uraltsev was one of the inventors of the Heavy Quark Expansion (HQE), that describes inclusive weak decays of hadrons containing heavy quarks and in particular lifetimes. Besides giving a pedagogic introduction to the subject, we review the development and the current status of the HQE, which just recently passed several non-trivial experimental tests with an unprecedented precision. In view of many new experimental results for lifetimes of heavy hadrons, we also update several theory predictions: , τ(Bs)/τ(Bd) = 1.001 ±0.002, τ(Λb)/τ(Bd) = 0.935 ±0.054 and . The theoretical precision is currently strongly limited by the unknown size of the non-perturbative matrix elements of four-quark operators, which could be determined with lattice simulations.
Citation
Lenz, A. (2015). Lifetimes and heavy quark expansion. International Journal of Modern Physics A, 30(10), https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217751x15430058
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Apr 10, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Dec 4, 2015 |
Publicly Available Date | Apr 10, 2016 |
Journal | International Journal of Modern Physics A |
Print ISSN | 0217-751X |
Publisher | World Scientific Publishing |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 30 |
Issue | 10 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217751x15430058 |
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Electronic version of an article published as International Journal of Modern Physics A, Vol. 30, No. 10 (2015) 1543005 (46 pages) DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X15430058 © World Scientific Publishing Company http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/ijmpa
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