Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1996-06-21
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
LATEX file, 14 pages, SPROCL.STY style file appended at the end; talk given at the Second Workshop on "Continuous Advances in
Scientific paper
The heavy quark expansion implemented through an operator product expansion provides us with a treatment of inclusive decays of beauty and charm hadrons that is genuinely derived from QCD,though it requires one additional assumption, namely that of 'local' quark-hadron duality. Subtleties in the application of factorization to hadronic expectation values are pointed out. The observed pattern in the charm lifetime ratios is reproduced in a semi-quantitative manner. The ratio $\tau (\Lambda _b)/\tau (B_d)$ cannot be pushed significantly below 0.9 -- unless one invokes a new hitherto unknown paradigm for evaluating baryonic matrix elements. One confidently predicts $\tau (B^-)$ to exceed $\tau (B_d)$ by several percent only. Failure of those predictions would force us to pay a hefty theoretical price, namely ultimately to abandon local duality as a practical concept.
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