Agenda for Vub/SF workshop

 

There is a $15 registration fee to be paid by cash
at the workshop to cover lunch and breaks

 

Questions for participating theorists

Reference material

 

Friday, 14:00-17:00 BaBar experimental results and prospects (Chair: Vera Luth)

 

TIME

TOPIC

PRESENTER(S)

14:00-14:15

Overview of workshop structure and goals (private)

Kowalewski

14:15-14:40

Vub - overview of BaBar results, limitations and prospects in inclusive decays (private)

Morii

 

DISCUSSION

 

15:00-15:20

b→sγ - overview of BaBar results, limitations and prospects for Eγ spectrum (private)

Di Lodovico

 

DISCUSSION

 

15:40-16:10

COFFEE BREAK

 

16:10-16:25

Moments - results and prospects for <Een> and <Mx2> moments in b→cℓν and b→uℓν decays, status of global fit (private)

Flaecher

 

DISCUSSION

 

16:40-16:50

News on related b→cℓν exclusive decays (private)

Rotondo

 

DISCUSSION

 

 

Friday, 19:00 - no-host dinner to be arranged

 

Saturday, 08:00-08:30 coffee/tea, juice and rolls for breakfast - provided

 

Saturday, 08:30-13:00 Theoretical issues in inclusive s.l. and radiative decays (Chair: Bob Kowalewski)

 

TIME

TOPIC [a]

PRESENTER(S)

8:30-8:50

Issues in b->qlnu decays (public)

Ligeti

 

DISCUSSION

 

9:10-9:30

Issues in b->qlnu and b->sg decays (public)

Uraltsev

 

DISCUSSION

 

9:50-10:10

SFs and factorization, impact on Vub (private)

Lange

 

DISCUSSION

 

10:30-11:00

COFFEE BREAK

 

11:00-11:25

Theory of b->sg decays (public)

Neubert

 

DISCUSSION

 

11:40-11:55

Subleading SFs (public)

Paz

 

DISCUSSION

 

12:10-12:20

SF and factorization (public)

Gardi

 

DISCUSSION

 

12:30-12:45

Moments in b→uℓν decays (public)

Gambino

 

DISCUSSION

 

 

[a] Note that Bigi is giving a SLAC seminar on inclusive semileptonic B decays on Thursday, December 9 at 14:00, and that Uraltsev is giving a SLAC theory seminar on Friday, December 10 at 12:00.

 

13:00 LUNCH BREAK - provided

 

Saturday, 14:00-17:00 Discussion and conclusions (Chair: Masahiro Morii)

TIME

TOPIC

Discussion leader

14:00-15:00

Status of workshop questions – DISCUSSION

Morii

15:00-15:30

Uncertainties in various b→uℓν analyses:

  • Ee > 2.0 GeV; perhaps even lower?
  • q2-Ee (shmax < mD2)
  • Mx < ~1.6 GeV
  • Mx-q2
  • No shape function (relate dГ/dEe to dГ/dEγ)
  • P+ < mD2/mB

Morii

15:30-15:45

Uncertainties in b→sγ analyses

Libby

15:45-16:15

COFFEE BREAK

 

16:15-16:40

What the theory community would like from BaBar (public)

Bigi

16:40-17:00

What BaBar would like from the theory community (private)

Kowalewski