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Heavy Quark Physics on the Lattice

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-10-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

I review the current status of lattice calculations of the properties of bound states containing one or more heavy quarks. Many of my remarks focus on the heavy-light leptonic decay constants, such as fBf_B, for which the systematic errors have by now been quite well studied. I also discuss BB-parameters, semileptonic form factors, and the heavy-light and heavy-heavy spectra. Some of my ``world averages'' are: fB=200(30)MeVf_B=200(30) MeV, fBB^Bd=230(40)MeVf_B\sqrt{\hat B_{B_d}}= 230(40) MeV, fBs/fB=1.16(4)f_{B_s}/f_B=1.16(4) and fBsB^Bs/fBB^Bd=1.16(5)f_{B_s}\sqrt{\hat B_{B_s}}/f_B\sqrt{\hat B_{B_d}}=1.16(5).

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0011064,
  title  = {Heavy Quark Physics on the Lattice},
  author = {C. Bernard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0011064},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Lattice 2000 (Plenary); 18 pages, 11 postscript figures; Revised version: Figure 9 updated