An Introduction to Heavy Mesons

TL;DR

This paper provides an introductory overview of heavy mesons, focusing on heavy quarks, effective field theory, and their applications to semileptonic decays and interactions with light mesons.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive introduction to heavy mesons and heavy quark effective field theory, including detailed applications to decay processes and meson interactions.

Findings

Clarifies the role of heavy quark effective theory in meson physics

Details applications to inclusive semileptonic decays

Explains interactions between heavy and light mesons

Abstract

Introductory lectures (delivered at the VI Mexican School of Particles and Fields) on heavy quarks and heavy quark effective field theory. Applications to inclusive semileptonic decays and to interactions with light mesons are covered in detail.