Memorial Contribution about Kolya Uraltsev's Talk at 2012 Workshop $B\to D**$

TL;DR

This paper reviews Kolya Uraltsev's significant contributions to understanding non-perturbative QCD through data on beauty and charm hadrons, highlighting his insights into semi-leptonic B decays and neutron EDM, and announces a memorial publication.

Contribution

It provides a concise review of Uraltsev's work on non-perturbative QCD and semi-leptonic B decays, emphasizing his impact on fundamental dynamics research.

Findings

Deepened understanding of forces in beauty and charm hadrons

Insights into neutron EDM and non-perturbative QCD

Focus on semi-leptonic B decays beyond B→lνD/D*

Abstract

Uraltev has given us a deeper understanding of the forces underlying the data from beauty and charm hadrons for the last 35 years and neutron EDM in the future -- in particular about non-perturbative QCD. At the Workshop in the November 2012 before his death he has focused mostly on the data about semi-leptonic B decays beyond $B \to l \nu D/D^*$. Here is a very short review of his talk at this Workshop. Next year colleagues will produce a `Memorial Book' about Kolya Uraltsev's excellent contributions to fundamental dynamics.