Heavy Quark Masses, Mixing Angles, and Spin-flavour Symmetry
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چکیده
In a series of three lectures, I review the theory and phenomenology of heavy quark masses and mixing angles and the status of their determination. In addition, I give an introduction to heavy quark symmetry, with the main emphasis on the development of heavy quark effective field theory and its application to obtain a model-independent determination of | Vcb|. (Lectures presented at TASI-93, Boulder, Colorado, 1993) CERN-TH.7225/94 April 1994 Address before Oct. 1993: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94309
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