Lifetime differences and CP violation parameters of neutral B mesons at the next-to-leading order in QCD

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 763-788

  Ciuchini, Marco ^a   Lubicz, Vittorio ^a   Tarantino, Cecilia ^a   Franco, Enrico ^b   Mescia, Federico ^c  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

B Physics; CP violation; Heavy Quarks Physics; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044454715     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/08/031     Document Type: Article

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