“…This method, first employed to compute the pion form factor [11], has been widely applied to heavy meson semileptonic decays: for example, in the case of B → D, D * semileptonic transitions, it has been used to compute the Isgur-Wise universal function ξ(y) and the heavy quark mass corrections [12]. Moreover, the decays B → D * * ℓν, where D * * are positive parity (cq) meson states, have been analyzed both for finite heavy quark masses [13] and in the limit m Q → ∞, with the calculation of the universal functions τ1 2 (y) and τ3 2 (y) analogous to the Isgur-Wise function [14]. For the heavy-to-light meson transitions, such as D(B) → π(ρ)ℓν, the various matrix elements have also been computed [15,16]; in the case of B → K * γ, this approach, employed in [17][18][19], has provided us with the prediction R = B(B → K * γ)/B(b → sγ) = 0.17±0.05 [17], that agrees with the central value obtained from the experimental data in eqs.…”