I describe a calculation of B meson mixing at one-loop in staggered chiral perturbation theory, for the complete set of Standard Model and beyond-the-Standard Model operators. The particular lattice representation of the continuum operators used by the Fermilab Lattice/MILC collaborations (and earlier by the HPQCD collaboration) turns out to be important, and results in the presence of "wrong-spin" operators, whose contributions however vanish in the continuum limit. The relation between staggered and naive fermions also plays a key role.
@article{arxiv.1211.0237,
title = {Staggered Chiral Perturbation Theory for Neutral B Mixing},
author = {C. Bernard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.0237},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
7 pages, 5 pdf figures. Presented at Lattice 2012, June 24-29, 2012, Cairns, Australia. To be published as PoS(Lattice2012), 201