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Understanding the physics of heavy quarks gives physicists the unique opportunity to test the predictions of Quantum Chromodynamics and the Standard Model. Heavy Quark Physics provides an exciting introduction to this new area of high energy physics. Two leading experts in the field review the standard model, the basics of heavy quark spin-flavor symmetry, and detail how it can be applied to the classification of states, decays and fragmentation. The heavy quark effective theory is developed, including the radiative and 1/mQ corrections, and applied to the study of hadron masses, form factors, and inclusive decay rates. The authors also discuss the application of chiral perturbation theory to heavy hadrons. To aid the reader, many of the key calculations are performed step by step, and problems are provided at the end of each chapter. This lucid volume provides graduate students with an ideal introduction to the physics of heavy quarks, and more experienced researchers with an authoritative reference to the subject.
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Heavy Quark Physics Understanding the physics of heavy quarks gives physicists the unique opportunity to test the predictions of Quantum Chromodynamics and the Standard Model. This is the first introductory text to this exciting new area of high-energy physics. The book begins with a review of the standard model, followed by the basics of heavy quark spin-flavor symmetry and how it can be applied to the classification of states, decays, and fragmentation. Heavy quark effective theory is then developed, including the radiative and 1/m Q corrections, and applied to the study of hadron masses, form factors, and inclusive decay rates. The authors also discuss the application of chiral perturbation theory to heavy hadrons. Written by two world leaders, the presentation is clear, original, and thoroughly modern. To aid the reader, many of the key calculations are performed step by step, and problems and a concise review of the literature are provided at the end of each chapter. This lucid volume provides graduate students with an ideal introduction to the physics of heavy quarks, and more experienced researchers with an authoritative reference to the subject. Aneesh Manohar is Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard University, Professor Manohar held positions at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before moving to the University of California, San Diego, where he has been since 1989. He has been a Scientific Associate at CERN, Geneva, a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University, and Iberdrola Visiting Professor at the University of Valencia. He was also awarded the A. P. Sloan Fellowship from 1987 to 1990. Mark Wise is the John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics at the California Institute of Technology. After receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford, he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University before moving to the California Institute of Technology in 1983. Professor Wise also held the A. P. Sloan Fellowship from 1984 to 1987. C A M B R I D G E M O N O G R A P H S O N P A R T I C L E P H Y S I C S, NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY 10 General Editors: T. Ericson, P. V. Landshoff 1. K. Winter (ed.): Neutrino Physics 2. J. F. Donoghue, E. Golowich and B. R. Holstein: Dynamics of the Standard Model 3. E. Leader and E. Predazzi: An Introduction to Gauge Theories and Modern Particle Physics, Volume 1: Electroweak Interactions, the ‘New Particles’ and the Parton Model 4. E. Leader and E. Predazzi: An Introduction to Gauge Theories and Modern Particle Physics, Volume 2: CP-Violation, QCD and Hard Processes 5. C. Grupen: Particle Detectors 6. H. Grosse and A. Martin: Particle Physics and the Schr¨odinger Equation 7. B. Andersson: The Lund Model 8. R. K. Ellis, W. J. Stirling and B. R. Webber: QCD and Collider Physics 9. I. I.