Heavy Flavors on the Lattice

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent lattice QCD results on heavy-flavor hadrons, focusing on spectrum calculations and weak transitions, highlighting their relevance to recent experimental findings.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent lattice QCD simulations involving heavy quarks, emphasizing their implications for understanding heavy-flavor hadrons.

Findings

Recent lattice results align with experimental data on heavy-flavor hadron spectra.

Lattice calculations offer insights into weak transition processes involving heavy quarks.

The review highlights progress and challenges in simulating heavy-flavor physics on the lattice.

Abstract

The lattice QCD results on the hadron spectrum and weak transitions between hadrons are briefly reviewed. Hadrons containing heavy quarks c or b are considered. The focus is on the recent simulations and some older results which are particularly relevant in view of the recent experimental discoveries.