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Heavy-flavour phenomenology from lattice QCD

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Il Nuovo Cimento A (1971-1996)

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The latest results on several weak hadronic amplitudes that have been computed in numerical simulations are reviewed. Many of these results have already had, or are expected to have, a significant impact on the phenomenology of weak interactions, and in particular on our understanding ofCP violation. The main topics discussed in this review are: leptonic decay constants of pseudoscalar heavy-light mesons, B-\(\bar B\) mixing amplitudes, semi-leptonic decays of D and B mesons, radiative decays of B mesons and the Isgur-Wise function.

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Martinelli, G. Heavy-flavour phenomenology from lattice QCD. Nuov Cim A 109, 787–805 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02731712

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