Soft-Collinear Effective Theory: Recent Results and Applications

Abstract

Soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) has become a standard tool to study the factorization of short- and long-distance effects in processes involving low-energetic (soft) particles and high-energetic/low-virtuality (collinear) modes. In this contribution I give a brief overview on recent results for inclusive and exclusive B decays and on applications in collider physics.

Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures, contributed to "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum", Sep 2008, Mainz (Germany)