Flavourful hadronic physics

We review theoretical approaches to form factors that arise in heavy-meson decays and are hadronic expressions of non-perturbative QCD. After motivating their origin in QCD factorisation, we retrace their evolution from quark-model calculations to non-perturbative QCD techniques with an emphasis on formulations of truncated heavy-light amplitudes based upon Dyson-Schwinger equations. We compare model predictions exemplarily for the F-B ->pi (q(2)) transition form factor and discuss new results for the (gD center dot D pi) coupling in the hadronic D* decay.Physics, Particles & FieldsCPCI-S(ISTP)