ASPECTS OF HEAVY-QUARK THEORY

@article{IBigi1997ASPECTSOH,
  title={ASPECTS OF HEAVY-QUARK THEORY},
  author={I.Bigi and Mikhail Shifman and Nikolai Uraltsev},
  journal={Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science},
  year={1997},
  volume={47},
  pages={591-661}
}
▪ Abstract Recent achievements in heavy-quark theory are critically reviewed. The emphasis is put on those aspects that either did not attract enough attention or cause heated debates in the current literature. Among other topics we discuss (a) basic parameters of the heavy-quark theory; (b) a class of exact QCD inequalities; (c) new heavy quark sum rules; (d) the virial theorem; (e) applications (|Vcb| from the total semileptonic width and from the B → D* transition at zero recoil). In some… 
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