Heavy-Quark Effective Theory

Abstract

We give an introduction to the heavy-quark effective theory and the 1/mQ expansion, which provide the modern framework for a systematic, model-independent description of the properties and decays of hadrons containing a heavy quark. We discuss the applications of these concepts to spectroscopy and to the weak decays of B mesons.

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