Several applications of the Heavy Quark Symmetry are studied. They concern the extraction of the quark mixing parameter $V\sb{cb}$, the Standard Model prediction for the branching ratio of $B \to K\sp{*}\gamma$ and the extraction of the quark mixing parameter $V\sb{ub}$ from $B \to \pi e\nu\sb{e}$ decays. An effective theory incorporating both Heavy Quark and Chiral Symmetries is presented and some of its applications are discussed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UMASS/oai:scholarworks.umass.edu:dissertations-6101 |
| Date | 01 January 1993 |
| Creators | Burdman, Gustavo Alberto |
| Publisher | ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst |
| Source Sets | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Source | Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest |
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