Semileptonic and leptonic $B$ decays, circa 2016

Abstract

We summarize the status of semileptonic and leptonic $B$ decays, including $|V_{cb}|$ and $|V_{ub}|$ exclusive and inclusive determinations, decays to excited states of the charm meson spectrum and decays into $\tau$ leptons.

Comments: 18 pages, no figures; small changes, including added references, to match published version