Theory of Inclusive B Decays

Abstract

We present the theory of inclusive decays of hadrons containing a heavy quark and discuss its most important applications to the decays of B mesons. We also review the theoretical understanding of the hadronic parameters lambda_1 and lambda_2 (or mu_pi^2 and mu_G^2) entering the heavy-quark expansion.

Comments: 13 pages, 3 figures; to appear in the Proceedings of the 4th KEK Topical Conference on Flavour Physics, KEK, Japan, October 1996