Name: Joint workshop on |Vub| & |Vcb| at the B-Factories
Start: 2007-12-14T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2007-12-16T12:30:00+01:00
Location: Physikalisches Institut Heidelberg

Joint workshop on |Vub| & |Vcb| at the B-Factories

from Friday 14 December 2007 (08:30) to Sunday 16 December 2007 (12:30)

Monday 10 December 2007
Tuesday 11 December 2007
Wednesday 12 December 2007
Thursday 13 December 2007
Friday 14 December 2007

08:30

08:30 - 08:40
08:40
08:40 - 12:30
Contributions

08:40 Overview of experimental results on B -> D/D* l nu (15') - Marcello Rotondo (Universita' di Padova)

09:10 Overview and Recent developments in Form-Factor calculations on the lattice for B -> D(*) l nu decays (20') - Jack Laiho (FNAL)

09:45 Overview of experimental results on B -> D** l nu (15') - Dmitri Liventsev (ITEP Moscow)

10:35 Theoretical Overview on B -> D** l nu decays (20') - Olivier Pene (Paris Sud)

11:10 Discussion (chairs: David Lopes Pegna, Christoph Schwanda, etc.)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 18:40
Contributions

14:00 Progress in form factors for charmless semileptonic decays from Lattice QCD (20') - Paul Mackenzie (FNAL)

14:35 Overview of non-lattice approaches for form factors in exclusive B -> Xu l nu decays (20') - Alexander Khodjamirian (Siegen)

15:10 Overview of B -> scalar(pi/eta/eta') l nu Measurements: Branching Fractions and Form Factors (15') - Benoit Viaud (Orsay)

16:00 Overview of B -> vector(rho/omega) l nu Measurements: Branching Fractions and Form Factors (15') - Matt Shepherd (Indiana)

16:30 Computer package for exclusive determinations (15') - Christopher Arnesen (Carnegie Mellon University)

17:00 Discussion (chairs: Paul Mackenzie, Jochen Dingfelder, Christoph Schwanda)
19:30 Social Dinner at the Restaurant Perkeo in the old town http://www.perkeo.info/mvr/eingang.htm
Social Dinner at the Restaurant Perkeo in the old town http://www.perkeo.info/mvr/eingang.htm
19:30 - 21:30
Saturday 15 December 2007
08:30
08:30 - 12:50
Contributions

08:30 Theoretical basis for the extraction of Vcb from inclusive B to Xc l nu decays and the uncertainties (20') - Thomas Mannel (Siegen)

09:10 b->c moments in the kinetic scheme (10') - Paolo Giordano (Universita' di Torino)

09:30 Overview of measurements of inclusive spectra and moments in b to s gamma decays (10') - Henning Flaecher (CERN)

09:50 Overview of measurements of inclusive distributions and moments in B to Xc l nu Decays, Results of OPE fits in different schemes (15') - Mihikiko Nakao (KEK)

10:40 Definition and extraction of b- and c- quark masses (15') - Andre Hoang (MPI Munich)

11:10 Measurements of b- and c-quark masses (15') - Robert Kowalewski (U. Victoria)

11:40 Discussion (chairs: Vera Luth, Thomas Mannel, Phillip Urquijo)

12:30 Vxb at Y(5S) - Toru Iijima (Nagoya University)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 19:00
Contributions

14:00 Measurement of partial Branching Fractions and Extraction of |Vub| using Tagged Analyses (10') - Philip Urquijo (University of Geneva)

14:20 Measurement of partial Branching Fractions and Extraction of |Vub| using Untagged Analyses (10') - Heiko Lacker (Berlin University)

14:40 Studies of Weak Annihilation (10') - Franco Simonetto (Universita' di Padova)

15:00 Determination of |Vub| in the Kinetic scheme and Weak Annihilation (20') - Paolo Gambino (Universita' di Torino)

16:00 Determination of |Vub| with the Analytic Coupling Method (20') - Giancarlo Ferrera (Universita' di Firenze)

16:40 Perspectives on |Vub| and B->Xs gamma (20') - Matthias Neubert (Mainz University)

17:20 Determination of |Vub| with the Gluon Dressed Exponentiation method (15') - Einan Gardi (University of Edinburgh)

17:50 Discussion (chairs: Elisabetta Barberio, Francesca Di Lodovico, Gil Paz)
Sunday 16 December 2007
08:30
08:30 - 10:20
Contributions

08:30 Leading Shape Function (20') - Frank Tackmann (LBNL & UC Berkeley)

09:10 Subleading Shape Function (10') - Gil Paz (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

09:30 Improved determination of |Vub| in inclusive untagged analyses at the B-Factories (15') - Kerstin Tackmann (LBNL & UC Berkeley)
10:20

10:20 - 12:25

12:25

12:25 - 12:30

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