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The kaon semileptonic form factor with near physical domain wall quarks

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2015-06-16 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present a new calculation of the K->pi semileptonic form factor at zero momentum transfer in domain wall lattice QCD with Nf=2+1 dynamical quark flavours. By using partially twisted boundary conditions we simulate directly at the phenomenologically relevant point of zero momentum transfer. We perform a joint analysis for all available ensembles which include three different lattice spacings (a=0.09-0.14fm), large physical volumes (m_pi*L>3.9) and pion masses as low as 171 MeV. The comprehensive set of simulation points allows for a detailed study of systematic effects leading to the prediction f+(0)=0.9670(20)(+18/-46), where the first error is statistical and the second error systematic. The result allows us to extract the CKM-matrix element |Vus|=0.2237(+13/-8) and confirm first-row CKM-unitarity in the Standard Model at the sub per mille level.

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@article{arxiv.1305.7217,
  title  = {The kaon semileptonic form factor with near physical domain wall quarks},
  author = {Peter A. Boyle and Jonathan M. Flynn and Nicolas Garron and Andreas Juttner and Chris T. Sachrajda and Karthee Sivalingam and James M. Zanotti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.7217},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 apges, 5 figures