a Department of Natural Science & Public Health, Zayed University, PO Box 19282, Dubai, United Arab Emirates b Department of Biological Sciences, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B3P4 c Department of Biology and Chemistry, American University of Sharjah, PO Box 26666, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates d United Nations University, International Network on Water, Environment and Heal...

The status of the heavy quark expansion for inclusive B decays is briefly reviewed from the perspective of confronting theory with data and of extracting the heavy quark parameters. A good agreement between properly applied theory and new precision data is observed. Some recent applications to the exclusive heavy flavor transitions are addressed. I recall the ‘ 1 2 > 3 2 ’ paradox for the trans...

We argue that there is strong experimental evidence in the data of band c-decays that the pattern of power suppressed corrections predicted by the short distance expansion, the heavy quark effective theory and the assumption of local duality is not correct for the non-leptonic inclusive widths. The data indicate instead the presence of 1/m corrections that should be absent in the above theoreti...