Bottomonium Decay Matrix Elements from Lattice QCD with Two Light Quarks
Abstract
We calculate the long-distance matrix elements for the decays of the Upsilon (eta_b) and chi_b (h_b) states in lattice QCD with two flavors of light dynamical quarks. We relate the lattice matrix elements to their continuum counterparts through one-loop order in perturbation theory. In the case of the leading S-wave matrix element, we compare our result with a phenomenological value that we extract from the experimental leptonic decay rate by using the theoretical expression for the decay rate, accurate through relative order alpha_s. Whereas estimates of the leading S-wave matrix element from quenched QCD are 40--45% lower than the phenomenological value, the two-flavor estimate of the same matrix element is close to the phenomenological value. Extrapolating to the real world of 2+1 light flavors, we find that this matrix element is approximately 6% higher than the phenomenological value, but that the phenomenological value lies within our error bars. We also compute the color-singlet and color-octet matrix elements for P-wave decays. We find the value of the color-singlet matrix element for 2+1 flavors to be approximately 70% larger than the quenched value and the value of the color-octet matrix element for 2+1 flavors to be approximately 40% larger than the quenched value.
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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0107011,
title = {Bottomonium Decay Matrix Elements from Lattice QCD with Two Light Quarks},
author = {G. T. Bodwin and D. K. Sinclair and S. Kim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0107011},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
29 pages, REVTEX, 4 Postscript figures, more extensive discussion of fitting procedures and uncertainties, minor additional revisions and corrections