96 research outputs found
Theoretical Update on Rare K Decays
We review the status of rare kaon decays, concentrating on modes with
sensitivity to short-distance flavour physics.Comment: Invited talk presented at Daphne 99, Frascati, Nov. 1999, 13 pages, 3
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Heavy Quark Theory
These lectures describe the most important theoretical methods in b-physics.
We discuss the formalism of effective weak Hamiltonians, heavy quark effective
theory, the heavy quark expansion for inclusive decays of b-hadrons and,
finally, the more recent ideas of QCD factorization for exclusive nonleptonic B
decays. While the main emphasis is put on introducing the basic theoretical
concepts, some key applications in phenomenology are also presented for
illustration.Comment: 50 pages, Lectures given at the 55th Scottish Universities Summer
School in Physics, 7-23 August 2001, St. Andrews, Scotlan
CP Violation and Rare Kaon Decays
We summarize both the study of CP violation with and mesons, as well
as rare decays of kaons, emphasizing recent developments. The topics discussed
include the unitarity triangle, , and
other rare decays, T-odd asymmetries in kaon physics, theoretical aspects
of CP violation in B decays, , , and
inclusive CP asymmetries.Comment: Plenary talk at EPS-HEP99, Tampere, Finland, 21 pages, 6 figure
QCD and Heavy Hadron Decays
We review recent developments in QCD pertaining to its application to weak
decays of heavy hadrons. We concentrate on exclusive rare and nonleptonic
B-meson decays, discussing both the theoretical framework and phenomenological
issues of current interest.Comment: 13 pages, 8 figures, talk at Lepton Photon 03, 11-16 August 2003,
Fermila
CP Violation in K Decays and Rare Decays
The present status of CP violation in decays of neutral kaons is reviewed. In
addition selected rare decays of both K and B mesons are discussed. The
emphasis is in particular on observables that can be reliably calculated and
thus offer the possibility of clean tests of standard model flavor physics.Comment: LaTeX, 21 pages, 4 figure
Rare Kaon Decays - Overview
The theory of rare decays is reviewed, emphasizing short-distance
processes and the prospects to probe the physics of flavour. A brief overview
of the subject is presented, along with a more detailed discussion of the
theory of decays.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, Invited Talk at KAON 2001, Pis
A Systematic Approach to the SILH Lagrangian
We consider the electroweak chiral Lagrangian, including a light scalar
boson, in the limit of small . Here is the electroweak scale
and is the corresponding scale of the new strong dynamics. We show how the
conventional SILH Lagrangian, defined as the effective theory of a
strongly-interacting light Higgs (SILH) to first order in , can be
obtained as a limiting case of the complete electroweak chiral Lagrangian. The
approach presented here ensures the completeness of the operator basis at the
considered order, it clarifies the systematics of the effective Lagrangian,
guarantees a consistent and unambiguous power counting, and it shows how the
generalization of the effective field theory to higher orders in has to
be performed. We point out that terms of order , which are usually not
included in the SILH Lagrangian, are parametrically larger than terms of order
that are retained, as long as . Conceptual
issues such as custodial symmetry and its breaking are also discussed. For
illustration, the minimal composite Higgs model based on the coset
is considered at next-to-leading order in the chiral expansion.
It is shown how the effective Lagrangian for this model is contained as a
special case in the electroweak chiral Lagrangian based on .Comment: 22 pages, 1 figure; improved presentation of the results in section
The Rare Decays , and -- An Update
We update the Standard Model predictions for the rare decays
and . In view of improved limits
on -- mixing we derive a stringent and theoretically clean
Standard Model upper limit on , which is based on the
ratio of -- to -- mixing, , alone. This method avoids the large hadronic uncertainties present in the
usual analysis of the CKM matrix. We find , which can be further improved in the future. In addition we consider
the extraction of from a future measurement of
, discussing the various sources of uncertainties
involved. We also investigate theoretically clean constraints on
. We take the opportunity to review the
next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to ,
, and , including a small
additional term that had been missed in the original publications. The
phenomenological impact of this change is negligible, the corresponding
numerical shift being essentially within the small perturbative uncertainties
at the NLO level.Comment: 19 pages, no figure
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