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$\tau_{B_c}$ in the Standard Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-03-31 v1

Abstract

The Standard Model prediction of the BcB_c lifetime is discussed, together with the dominant uncertainties and strategies on how to improve them. Furthermore, a new method to compute the BcB_c lifetime based on the operator product expansion is proposed. It relies on differences of B,DB,\,D and BcB_c meson decay rates, in which the free-quark contributions cancel out, reducing the uncertainty of the theory prediction.

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@article{arxiv.2203.16196,
  title  = {$\tau_{B_c}$ in the Standard Model},
  author = {Jason Aebischer and Benjamín Grinstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.16196},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

7 pages, 1 figure, Contribution to the proceedings of the Corfu Summer Institute 2021 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity", 29 August - 9 October 2021, Corfu, Greece

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