QCD Sum Rules for Exclusive Decays of Heavy Mesons · arXivDesk
hep-ph/9801443Jan 29, 199856 pages, Latex, epsfig; to appear in Heavy Flavours, 2nd edition, eds. A.J. Buras and M. Lindner (World Scientific, Singapore)
QCD Sum Rules for Exclusive Decays of Heavy Mesons
Applications of QCD sum rules to exclusive decays of heavy mesons are reviewed. In detail, we discuss the calculations of the B and D decay constants, the heavy-to-light form factors f+(p2) and f0(p2)
Nearby in the stack
, and the strong couplings
gB∗Bπ
and
gD∗Dπ
. Predictions are presented for the semileptonic weak decays
B→πlˉνl
and
B→ρlˉνl
, and used to extract
Vub
from the measured decay widths. Results are also shown on
D→πlˉνl
and
D∗→Dπ
. Furthermore, we reconsider the factorization hypothesis in nonleptonic two-body decays, and describe a sum rule estimate of the nonfactorizable contribution to the amplitude of