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Parameters of Heavy Quark Effective Theory from Nf=2 lattice QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2012-10-05 v1

Abstract

We report on a non-perturbative determination of the parameters of the lattice Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) Lagrangian and of the time component of the heavy-light axial-vector current with Nf=2 flavors of massless dynamical quarks. The effective theory is considered at the 1/mh order, and the heavy mass mh covers a range from slightly above the charm to beyond the beauty region. These HQET parameters are needed to compute, for example, the b-quark mass, the heavy-light spectrum and decay constants in the static approximation and to order 1/mh in HQET. The determination of the parameters is done non-perturbatively. The computation reported in this paper uses the plaquette gauge action and two different static actions for the heavy quark described by HQET. For the light-quark action we choose non-perturbatively O(a)-improved Wilson fermions.

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@article{arxiv.1203.6516,
  title  = {Parameters of Heavy Quark Effective Theory from Nf=2 lattice QCD},
  author = {Benoit Blossier and Michele Della Morte and Patrick Fritzsch and Nicolas Garron and Jochen Heitger and Hubert Simma and Rainer Sommer and Nazario Tantalo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.6516},
  year   = {2012}
}

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24 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables