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$B^0_s - \bar{B^0_s}$ Mixing Parameters from Unquenched Lattice QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We determine hadronic matrix elements relevant for the mass and width differences, ΔMs\Delta M_s & ΔΓs\Delta \Gamma_s in the Bs0Bs0ˉB^0_s - \bar{B^0_s} meson system using fully unquenched lattice QCD. We employ the MILC collaboration gauge configurations that include uu, dd and ss sea quarks using the improved staggered quark (AsqTad) action and a highly improved gluon action. We implement the valence ss quark also with the AsqTad action and use Nonrelativistic QCD for the valence bb quark. For the nonperturbative QCD input into the Standard Model expression for ΔMs\Delta M_s we find fBsB^Bs=0.281(21)f_{B_s} \sqrt{\hat{B}_{B_s}} = 0.281(21)GeV. Results for four-fermion operator matrix elements entering Standard Model formulas for ΔΓs\Delta \Gamma_s are also presented.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0610104,
  title  = {$B^0_s - \bar{B^0_s}$ Mixing Parameters from Unquenched Lattice QCD},
  author = {Emel Dalgic and Alan Gray and Elvira Gamiz and Christine T. H. Davies and G. Peter Lepage and Junko Shigemitsu and Howard Trottier and Matthew Wingate},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0610104},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

5 pages, version to appear in Physical Review D (Rapid Communications), short section on the width difference $\Delta \Gamma_s$ added