B Meson Decays in the Covariant Confined Quark Model

Abstract

The aim of this text is to present the covariant confined quark model (CCQM) and review its applications in the decays of B mesons. We do so in the context of existing experimental measurements and theoretical results of other authors, which we also review. The physics principles are, in detail, exposed for the CCQM; the other results (theoretical and experimental) are surveyed in an enumerative way with comments. We proceed by considering, successively, three categories of decay processes: leptonic, semileptonic and non-leptonic.