Heavy Flavor Physics and Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics Calculation

Dear Colleagues,

Understanding the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) theory and hunting for new physics beyond the standard model are two crucial tasks in high-energy particle physics community. Heavy flavor quark with the heavy quark mass greatly larger than the typical hadron scale provides an efficient tool to not only disentangle the short-distance perturbative calculable interactions from the long-distance nonperturbative strong interactions, but also closely connect with new physics from

its rich decay modes. Even though there are lots of developments of low-energy effective theory of QCD in certain hadrons including at least one heavy flavor quark, the high precision calculation including arbitrarily high order in both the QCD strong couplings and the power corrections are still challenging. On the other hand, more and more precise theoretical predictions are required to compare precision flavor physics experiments and high energy collider experiments.

This Special Issue aims at a collection of both review and original research, covering heavy flavor physics and perturbative QCD calculation, including heavy hadron decays, hadron structures, perturbative calculation, high-order correction, and Feynman integrals calculation methods. Both theoretical and experimental works are welcome.

Dr. Ruilin Zhu
Dr. Long-Bin Chen
Guest Editors

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• perturbative QCD
• heavy flavor physics
• effective theory
• higher-order calculation
• QCD factorization