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Heavy Quark Effective Theory and Weak Matrix Elements

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Recent developments in the theory of weak decays of heavy flavours are reviewed. Applications to exclusive semileptonic B decays, the semileptonic branching ratio and charm counting, beauty lifetimes, and hadronic B decays are discussed.

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Neubert, M. (1999). Heavy Quark Effective Theory and Weak Matrix Elements. In: Lellouch, D., Mikenberg, G., Rabinovici, E. (eds) International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59982-8_20

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