Flavor physics of leptons and dipole moments (2008)
Raidal, M., Bigi, I., Mangano, M.L., Semertzidis, Y., Abel, S., ...
This chapter of the report of the ``Flavour in the era of the LHC'' Workshop discusses the theoretical, phenomenological and experimental issues related to flavour phenomena in the charged lepton...
Proceedings of SuperB Workshop VI: New Physics at the Super Flavor Factory (2008)
Hitlin, D. G., Cheng, C. H., Asner, D. M., Hurth, T., McElrath, B., Shindou, T., ...
The sixth SuperB Workshop was convened in response to questions posed by the INFN Review Committee, evaluating the SuperB project at the request of INFN. The working groups addressed the capability...
Flavor physics of leptons and dipole moments (2008)
Raidal, M, Bigi, I, Mangano, ML, Semertzidis, Y, Abel, S, ...
This chapter of the report of the ``Flavor in the era of the LHC'' Workshop discusses the theoretical, phenomenological and experimental issues related to flavor phenomena in the charged lepton...
Flavor physics of leptons and dipole moments (2008)
Raidal, M, Bigi, I, Mangano, ML, Semertzidis, Y, Abel, S, ...
This chapter of the report of the “Flavor in the era of the LHC” Workshop discusses the theoretical, phenomenological and experimental issues related to flavor phenomena in the charged lepton...
Flavour physics of leptons and dipole moments (2008)
Raidal, M., Bigi, I., Mangano, M. L., Semertzidis, Y., Abel, S., ...
This chapter of the report of the ``Flavour in the era of the LHC'' Workshop discusses the theoretical, phenomenological and experimental issues related to flavour phenomena in the charged lepton...
Flavour Physics of Leptons and Dipole Moments. (2008)
M. Raidal, DESY Forschung Hochenergiephysik, I. Bigi, M.L. Mangano, Y. Semertzidis, ...
Internal report | Preprint
Our knowledge of flavour dynamics has undergone a `quantum jump' since just before the turn of the millenium: direct \cp violation has been firmly {\em established} in $K_L \to \pi \pi$ decays in...
Four-Quark Mesons in Non-leptonic B Decays--Could They Resolve Some Old Puzzles? (2005)
Bigi, I., Maiani, L., Piccinini, F., Polosa, A. D., Riquer, V.
We point out that non-leptonic B decays driven by b-->ccbar s should provide a favourable environment for the production of hidden charm diquark-antidiquark bound states that have been suggested to...
The Discovery Potential of a Super B Factory (2005)
Hewett, JoAnne. L., Hitlin, David G., Abe, T., Agashe, K., Albert, J., Ali, A., ...
The Proceedings of the 2003 SLAC Workshops on flavor physics with a high luminosity asymmetric e+e- collider. The sensitivity of flavor physics to physics beyond the Standard Model is addressed in...
Our knowledge of flavour dynamics has undergone a `quantum jump' since just before the turn of the millenium: direct \cp violation has been firmly {\em established} in $K_L \to \pi \pi$ decays in...
Our knowledge of flavour dynamics has undergone a `quantum jump' since just before the turn of the millenium: direct \cp violation has been firmly {\em established} in $K_L \to \pi \pi$ decays in...
The CKM Matrix and the unitary triangle (2003)
Battaglia, M., Buras, A.J., Gambino, P., Stocchi, A., Abbaneo, D., Ali, A., ...
This report contains the results of the Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, held at CERN on 13-16 February 2002 to study the determination of the CKM matrix from the available data of K, D, and B...
A Cicerone for the Physics of Charm (2003)
Bianco, S., Fabbri, F. L., Benson, D., Bigi, I.
After briefly recapitulating the history of the charm quantum number we sketch the experimental environments and instruments employed to study the behaviour of charm hadrons and then describe the...
A Cicerone for the physics of charm, Part I: production, spectroscopy, lifetimes (2003)
Bianco, S., Fabbri, F. L., Benson, D., Bigi, I.
This is part I of a two-part review of charm physics. After briefly recapitulating the history of the charm quantum number we sketch the experimental environments and instruments employed to study...
The CKM Matrix and the Unitarity Triangle (2003)
Battaglia, M., Buras, A. J., Gambino, P., Stocchi, A., Abbaneo, D., Ali, A., ...
This report contains the results of the Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, held at CERN on 13-16 February 2002 to study the determination of the CKM matrix from the available data of K, D, and B...
CKM elements from tree-level B decays and lifetimes (2003)
Artuso, M., Battaglia, M., Bauer, C., Becirevic, D., Beneke, M., Bigi, I., ...
CKM elements from tree-level B decays and lifetimes (2003)
Artuso, M., Battaglia, M., Bauer, C., Becirevic, D., Beneke, M., Bigi, I., ...
TESLA Technical Design Report Part III: Physics at an e+e- Linear Collider (2001)
Miller, D. J., Richard, F., Zerwas, P. M., Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A., Alcaraz, J., ...
The TESLA Technical Design Report Part III: Physics at an e+e- Linear Collider
Bigi, I., Bolton, T., Formaggio, J., Harris, D. A., Kayser, B., King, B. J., ...
Conceptual design studies are underway for muon colliders and other high-current muon storage rings that have the potential to become the first true ``neutrino factories''. Muon decays in long...
TESLA Technical Design Report Part III: Physics at an e+e- Linear Collider (2001)
Heuer, RD, Miller, DJ, Richard, F, Zerwas, PM, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Alcaraz, J, ...
The TESLA Technical Design Report Part III: Physics at an e+e- Linear Collider
TESLA Technical Design Report Part III: Physics at an e+e- Linear Collider (2001)
Heuer, RD, Miller, DJ, Richard, F, Zerwas, PM, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Alcaraz, J, ...
The TESLA Technical Design Report Part III: Physics at an e+e- Linear Collider
b Quark Physics with 2 .10^9 Z Bosons (2000)
Ali, A., Benson, D., Bigi, I., Hawkings, R., Mannel, T.
It has been suggested to realize a factory for 10^9 Z^0 through a linear e^+e^- collider with polarized beams. Very likely the relevant CP studies for B mesons will already have been performed at the...
The narrative of these lectures contains three main threads: (i) CP violation despite having so far been observed only in the decays of neutral kaons has been recognized as a phenomenon of truly...
Heavy flavor decays, OPE and duality in two-Dimensional 't Hooft model (1998)
Bigi, I., Shifman, M., Uraltsev, N., Vainshtein, A.
The 't Hooft model (two-dimensional QCD in the limit of large number of colors) is used as a laboratory for exploring various aspects of the heavy quark expansions in the nonleptonic and semileptonic...
CP Violation -- An Essential Mystery in Nature's Grand Design (1997)
CP violation has so far been observed in one system only, namely in the decays of neutral kaons, and it can still be described by a single real quantity corresponding to a superweak scenario. In...
Bigi, I., Dikeman, R. David, Uraltsev, N.
We present an extended discussion of the previously noted possibility to extract |V_{ub}| from an analysis of the hadronic recoil mass spectrum in B->X_u l nu decays. Invariant mass spectra...
High Power n of m_b in Beauty Widths and n=5 -> oo Limit (1997)
Bigi, I., Shifman, M., Uraltsev, N., Vainshtein, A.
The leading term in the semileptonic width of heavy flavor hadrons depends on the fifth power of the heavy quark mass. We present an analysis where this power can be self-consistently treated as a...
Aspects Of Heavy Quark Theory (1997)
Bigi, I., Shifman, M., Uraltsev, N.
Recent achievements in the heavy quark theory are critically reviewed. The emphasis is put on those aspects which either did not attract enough attention or cause heated debates in the current...
How to Measure Kinetic Energy of the Heavy Quark Inside B Mesons? (1994)
Bigi, I., Grozin, A., Shifman, M., Uraltsev, N., Vainshtein, A.
We discuss how one can determine the average kinetic energy of the heavy quark inside heavy mesons from differential distributions in $B$ decays. A new, so-called third, sum rule for the...
Heavy Quark Distribution Function in QCD and the AC$^2$M$^2$ Model (1994)
Bigi, I., Shifman, M., Uraltsev, N., Vainshtein, A.
We show that the phenomenological \ACM ansatz is consistent with QCD through order $1/m_b$ in the description of $B\ra l\bar \nu_l+X_u$ and $B\ra \gamma +X_s$ transitions, including their energy...
Non-Leptonic Decays of Beauty Hadrons -- from Phenomenology to Theory (1994)
Bigi, I., Blok, B., Shifman, M., Uraltsev, N., Vainshtein, A.
`Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old' Franz Kafka. In the last few years considerable progress has been achieved in our understanding of the decays of heavy flavour hadrons....
The Baffling Semileptonic Branching Ratio of $B$ Mesons (1993)
Bigi, I., Blok, B., Shifman, M., Vainshtein, A.
The apparent gap between the measured and the expected value for the semileptonic branching ratio of $B$ mesons has become more serious over the last year. This is due to the improved quality of the...
THE CKM MATRIX AND THE UNITARITY TRIANGLE
Abbaneo,D., Ali,A., Amaral,P., Andreev,V., Artuso,M., Barberio,E., ...
This report contains the results of the Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, held at CERN on 13-16 February 2002 to study the determination of the CKM matrix from the available data of K, D, and B...
THE CKM MATRIX AND THE UNITARITY TRIANGLE
Abbaneo, D., Ali, A., Amaral, P., Andreev, V., Artuso, M., Barberio, E., ...
This report contains the results of the Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, held at CERN on 13-16 February 2002 to study the determination of the CKM matrix from the available data of K, D, and B...