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Kaon semileptonic decays near the physical point

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2012-12-14 v1

Abstract

The CKM matrix element Vus|V_{us}| can be extracted from the experimental measurement of semileptonic KπK\to\pi decays. The determination depends on theory input for the corresponding vector form factor in QCD. We present a preliminary update on our efforts to compute it in Nf=2+1N_f=2+1 lattice QCD using domain wall fermions for several lattice spacings and with a lightest pion mass of about 170MeV170\,\mathrm{MeV}. By using partially twisted boundary conditions we avoid systematic errors associated with an interpolation of the form factor in momentum-transfer, while simulated pion masses near the physical point reduce the systematic error due to the chiral extrapolation.

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@article{arxiv.1212.3188,
  title  = {Kaon semileptonic decays near the physical point},
  author = {Peter A. Boyle and Jonathan M. Flynn and Andreas Jüttner and Christopher Sachrajda and Karthee Sivalingam and James M. Zanotti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.3188},
  year   = {2012}
}

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7 pages, 7 figures, Lattice 2012 PoS