Inclusive heavy hadron decays and light-cone dynamics
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چکیده
The governing role of light-cone dynamics in inclusive heavy hadron decay processes is demonstrated. Nonperturbative QCD effects on the processes can be systematically calculated using light-cone expansion and heavy quark effective theory. The applications of the light-cone approach to studying electroweak and strong interactions and hadron structure with semileptonic and radiative decays of beauty hadrons are briefly reviewed. To appear in Proceedings of the Workshop on Light-Cone QCD and Nonperturbative Hadron Physics Adelaide, Australia, December 13-21, 1999 INCLUSIVE HEAVY HADRON DECAYS AND LIGHT-CONE DYNAMICS
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