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B Decays on the Lattice and Results for Phenomenology

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

Lattice Monte Carlo simulations now include the effects of 2 light sea quarks and 1 strange sea quark through the use of an improved staggered fermion action. Consequently, results important to phenomenology are free of the approximate 10% errors inherent in the quenched approximation. This talk reports on calculations of the B and Bs decay constants and B -> pi l nu form factors. Accurate determinations of these quantities will lead to tighter constraints on CKM matrix elements.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0411236,
  title  = {B Decays on the Lattice and Results for Phenomenology},
  author = {Matthew Wingate and Christine Davies and Alan Gray and Emel Gulez and Junko Shigemitsu and G. Peter Lepage},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0411236},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Contributed to the Proceedings of American Physical Society's 2004 Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF2004), Riverside, CA, 26-31 August 2004. 3 pages