Dissipative effects in semileptonic B decays

Abstract

We study the time evolution and decay of the neutral B-meson system using quantum dynamical semigroups. New, nonstandard terms appear in the expression of relevant observables; they can be parametrized in terms of six phenomenological constants. Although very small, these parameters may be detected in the new generation of dedicated B-meson experiments.

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