TL;DR
This paper discusses the influence of soft hadronic physics on B decay predictions, highlighting the limitations of current calculation tools and their impact on testing for new physics beyond the Standard Model.
Contribution
It reviews available theoretical tools for calculating hadronic effects in B decays and illustrates their application through detailed examples.
Findings
Theoretical uncertainties in hadronic effects are significant.
Current tools have limitations that affect B decay predictions.
Hadronic effects can obscure signals of new physics.
Abstract
In these lectures I discuss the impact of soft hadronic physics on predictions for B decays. Unfortunately our tools for calculating these effects are limited; even after the use of the best available tools the resulting theoretical uncertainties are difficult to delimit, and can obscure tests for the presence of beyond-Standard-Model physics. The first lecture reviews what tools are available, the second reviews in more detail two examples of how these tools can be used.
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