Progress on semi-leptonic $B_{(s)}$ decays

Abstract

We report on the current status of semi-leptonic $B_{(s)}$ decays, including rare decays, and the extraction of the absolute values of the CKM matrix elements $|V_{cb}|$ and $|V_{ub}|$.

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