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The width difference in the $B_s$-$\bar B_s$ system: towards NNLO

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-01-08 v1

Abstract

The width difference ΔΓ\Delta \Gamma among the two mass eigenstates of the BsB_s-Bˉs\bar B_s system is measured with a precision of 7%. The theory prediction has a larger uncertainty which mainly stems from unknown perturbative higher-order QCD corrections. I discuss the subset of next-to-next-to-leading order diagrams proportional to αs2Nf\alpha_s^2\, N_f, where Nf=5N_f=5 is the number of quark flavours. The results are published in [1].

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@article{arxiv.1901.01444,
  title  = {The width difference in the $B_s$-$\bar B_s$ system: towards NNLO},
  author = {Ulrich Nierste},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.01444},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Prepared for the Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle (CKM 2018)}, Heidelberg, Germany, September 17-21, 2018

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