Exclusive semileptonic B decays to excited D mesons

Abstract

Exclusive semileptonic B decays to orbitally and radially excited charmed mesons are investigated in the first order of the heavy quark expansion. The emerging leading and subleading Isgur-Wise functions are calculated in the framework of the relativistic quark model. It is found that both relativistic and the 1/m_Q corrections play an important role and substantially modify results. An interesting interplay between different corrections is observed.

Comments: 10 pages, JHEP class, Talk given at the Vth International Workshop "Heavy Quark Physics", Dubna, Russia, 6-8 April 2000