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Accurate B meson and Bottomonium masses and decay constants from the tadpole improved clover ensembles

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2026-03-03 v1

Abstract

We present a determination of the bottom quark mass, the masses of S-wave bottom mesons, and their decay constants using an anisotropic clover fermion discretization for the heavy quark, on 2+12+1 flavor isotropic QCD ensembles. Our analysis is based on 16 ensembles spanning 6 lattice spacings, with pion masses in the range of 135-350 MeV and several values of the strange quark mass. We demonstrate that the effective anisotropy parameter for the heavy quark approaches unity with controllable O(a2)\mathcal{O}(a^2) corrections. A non-perturbative renormalization procedure is developed and validated through predictions of the bottom quark mass and decay constants. This framework enables calculations at the physical bb-quark mass even on lattices with spacing a0.1a \sim 0.1 fm, where mba2.5m_b a \sim 2.5, while keeping discretization errors in hadronic matrix elements at the 10\sim 10% level which can be eliminated properly through the continuum extrapolation. Using the physical Υ\Upsilon mass as input, we obtain mbMS(mb)=4.185(37)m_b^{\overline{\mathrm{MS}}}(m_b) = 4.185(37) GeV and the full spectrum of S-wave bottom mesons with 0.1% uncertainty or less. Pseudoscalar and vector decay constants and their ratios for all kinds of S-wave bottom mesons are also provided.

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@article{arxiv.2603.01846,
  title  = {Accurate B meson and Bottomonium masses and decay constants from the tadpole improved clover ensembles},
  author = {Mengchu Cai and Hai-Yang Du and Xiangyu Jiang and Peng Sun and Wei Sun and Ji-Hao Wang and Yi-Bo Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.01846},
  year   = {2026}
}

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34 pages, 27 figures