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D-meson decay constants and a check of factorization in non-leptonic B-decays

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2015-06-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We compute the vector meson decay constants fD*, fDs* from the simulation of twisted mass QCD on the lattice with Nf = 2 dynamical quarks. When combining their values with the pseudoscalar D(s)-meson decay constants, we were able (i) to show that the heavy quark spin symmetry breaking effects with the charm quark are large, fDs*/fDs = 1.26(3), and (ii) to check the factorization approximation in a few specific B-meson non-leptonic decay modes. Besides our main results, fD* = 278 \pm 13 \pm 10 MeV, and fDs* = 311 \pm 9 MeV, other phenomenologically interesting results of this paper are: fDs*/fD* = 1.16 \pm 0.02 \pm 0.06, fDs*/fD = 1.46 \pm 0.05 \pm 0.06, and fDs/fD* = 0.89 \pm 0.02 \pm 0.03. Finally, we correct the value for B(B0 \rightarrow D+ pi-) quoted by PDG, and find B(B0 \rightarrow D+ pi-) = (7.8 \pm 1.4) \times 10-7. Alternatively, by using the ratios discussed in this paper, we obtain B(B0 \rightarrow D+ pi-) = (8.3 \pm 1.0 \pm 0.8)\times10-7.

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@article{arxiv.1201.4039,
  title  = {D-meson decay constants and a check of factorization in non-leptonic B-decays},
  author = {Damir Becirevic and Vittorio Lubicz and Francesco Sanfilippo and Silvano Simula and Cecilia Tarantino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.4039},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages, 4 eps figures