We determine the decay rate to leptons of the ground-state Υ meson and its first radial excitation in lattice QCD for the first time. We use radiatively-improved NRQCD for the b quarks and include u, d, s and c quarks in the sea with u/d masses down to their physical values. We find Γ(Υ→e+e−) = 1.19(11) keV and Γ(Υ′→e+e−) = 0.69(9) keV, both in good agreement with experiment. The decay constants we obtain are included in a summary plot of meson decay constants from lattice QCD given in the Conclusions. We also test time-moments of the vector current-current correlator against values determined from the b quark contribution to σ(e+e−→hadrons) and calculate the b-quark piece of the hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, aμb=0.271(37)×10−10. Finally we determine the b-quark mass, obtaining in the MS scheme, mb(mb,nf=5) = 4.196(23) GeV, the most accurate result from lattice QCD to date.
@article{arxiv.1408.5768,
title = {The $\Upsilon$ and $\Upsilon^{\prime}$ Leptonic Widths, $a_{\mu}^b$ and $m_b$ from full lattice QCD},
author = {B. Colquhoun and R. J. Dowdall and C. T. H. Davies and K. Hornbostel and G. P. Lepage},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.5768},
year = {2015}
}