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Excited B mesons from the lattice

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We determine the energies of the excited states of a heavy-light meson QqˉQ\bar{q}, with a static heavy quark and light quark with mass approximately that of the strange quark from both quenched lattices and with dynamical fermions. We are able to explore the energies of orbital excitations up to L=3, the spin-orbit splitting up to L=2 and the first radial excitation. These bsˉb \bar{s} mesons will be very narrow if their mass is less than 5775 MeV -- the BKBK threshold. We investigate this in detail and present evidence that the scalar meson (L=1) will be very narrow and that as many as 6 bsˉb \bar{s} excited states will have energies close to the BKBK threshold and should also be relatively narrow.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0312007,
  title  = {Excited B mesons from the lattice},
  author = {UKQCD Collaboration and A. M. Green and J. Koponen and C. McNeile and C. Michael and G. Thompson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0312007},
  year   = {2008}
}

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17 pages, 6 ps figures