| Publication Type |
Journal Article |
| School or College |
College of Science |
| Department |
Physics |
| Creator |
DeTar, Carleton |
| Other Author |
Bernard, C.; Di Pierro, M.; El-Khadra, A. X.; Evans, R. T.; Freeland, E. D.; Gamiz, E.; Gottlieb, Steven; Heller, U. M.; Hetrick, J. E.; Kronfeld, A. S.; Laiho, J.; Levkova, L.; Mackenzie, P. B.; Okamoto, M.; Simone, J.; Sugar, R.; Toussaint, D.; Van de Water, R. S. |
| Title |
B̄→D*ℓν̄ form factor at zero recoil from three-flavor lattice QCD: a model independent determination of [Vcb] |
| Date |
2009-01 |
| Description |
We present the first lattice QCD calculation of the form factor for B→ D* lv with three flavors of sea quarks. We use an improved staggered action for the light valence and sea quarks (the MILC configurations), and the Fermilab action for the heavy quarks. The form factor is computed at zero recoil using a new double ratio method that yields the form factor more directly than the previous Fermilab method. Other improvements over the previous calculation include the use of much lighter light-quark masses, and the use of lattice (staggered) chiral perturbation theory in order to control the light-quark discretization errors and chiral extrapolation. We obtain for the form factor, FB→D*(1) = 0:921(13)(20), where the first error is statistical and the second is the sum of all systematic errors in quadrature. Applying a 0.7% electromagnetic correction and taking the latest PDG average for FB→D*(1)[Vcb] leads to [Vcb] = (38:7+ 0:9exp + 10theo) X 10-3. |
| Type |
Text |
| Publisher |
American Physical Society |
| Journal Title |
Physical Review D |
| Volume |
79 |
| Issue |
1 |
| DOI |
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.014506 |
| citatation_issn |
1550-7998 |
| Subject |
Staggered quarks |
| Subject LCSH |
Form factor (Nuclear physics); Quantum chromodynamics; Lattice gauge theories; Particles (Nuclear physics); Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Chirality; Quarks; Perturbation (Mathematics) |
| Language |
eng |
| Bibliographic Citation |
Bernard, C., DeTar, C., Di Pierro, M., El-Khadra, A. X., Evans, R. T., Freeland, E. D., Gamiz, E., Gottlieb, S., Heller, U. M., Hetrick, J. E., Kronfeld, A. S., Laiho, J., Levkova, L., Mackenzie, P. B., Okamoto, M., Simone, J., Sugar, R., Toussaint, D., & Van de Water, R. S. (2009). B̄→D*ℓν̄ form factor at zero recoil from three-flavor lattice QCD: a model independent determination of [Vcb]. Physical Review D, 79(1), 014506. |
| Rights Management |
(c) American Physical Society http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.79.014506 |
| Format Medium |
application/pdf |
| Format Extent |
495,296 bytes |
| Identifier |
ir-main,10226 |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6rb7p32 |
| Setname |
ir_uspace |
| ID |
705922 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rb7p32 |
