ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a thorough introduction to the B phenomenology of heavy flavour physics, including b quark decay or production. Studies of b and c physics are focused on two main goals. The first is to look for new phenomena beyond the Standard Model and the second is to measure Standard Model parameters including Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) elements and decay constants. The physical states of the “Standard Model” are comprised of left-handed doublets containing leptons and quarks and right handed singlets. Multiplying the mass eigenstates by the CKM matrix leads to the weak eigenstates. A more direct measurement would be to measure the actual decay distance and the momentum of the hadron. Theory currently can predict either the inclusive decay rate, or the exclusive decay rate when there is only a single hadron in the final state.
