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 , 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 mesons will be very narrow if their mass is less than 5775 MeV -- the 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 excited states will have energies close to the 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