We review the current status of heavy-quark symmetry and its applications to weak decays of
hadrons containing a single heavy quark. After an introduction to the underlying physical …

This biennial review summarizes much of Particle Physics. Using data from previous
editions, plus 1900 new measurements from 700 papers, we list, evaluate, and average …

When one or more quarks are heavy compared to hadronic scales, some new symmetries
appear in the low energy effective lagrangian for QCD. We exploit these static quark …

I construct a Lorentz invariant effective field theory description of QCD in the presence of
heavy quarks at energies large compared to the QCD scale and small compared to the …

Recent experimental results on D-, D s-and B-decays are interpreted on the basis of the
valence quark model. For nonleptonic decays generally good results are obtained using …

We present the predictions of the ISGW2 model, an update of the ISGW quark model for
semileptonic meson decays. The updated model incorporates a number of features which …

We use the techniques of an effective field theory for heavy quark systems to calculate
inclusive lepton energy distributions in heavy meson decays. Our approach is patterned …

We calculate the leading QCD radiative corrections to the relations which follow from the
decoupling of the heavy quark spin as the quark mass goes to infinity and from the symmetry …

We derive the lepton spectrum in semileptonic b decays from a nonperturbative treatment of
QCD; it is based on an expansion in 1/m Q with m Q being the heavy flavor quark mass. The …

We discuss the exclusive semi-leptonic (sl) bottom meson decays B→ D (D*)+ l+ v where we
include non-zero lepton mass effects in the kinematics and dynamics. We develop the …