Spin Effects in Heavy Quark Processes

Abstract

In the infinite mass limit for a heavy quark its spin decouples from the QCD dynamics, which leads to the heavy-quark spin symmetry. After a short discussion of spin symmetry some applications are considered.

Contribution to the Crakow Epiphany Conference on Spin Effects in Particle Physics, January 9--11, 1998, Crakow, Poland. 17 pages, LaTeX, no figures