Recent Developments in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory

Abstract

Soft-collinear effective theory provides a systematic theoretical framework to describe the factorization of short- and long-distance QCD dynamics in hard-scattering processes that contain both, soft and energetic particles/jets. I present a short guide to recent theoretical achievements and to phenomenological applications in heavy B-meson decays.

Comments: Extended version of proceedings contribution to ICHEP06, Moscow, July 2006. 6 pages, 3 figures, using ws-procs10x7.cls, a few references added