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Update on $f_B$

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We describe the current status of the MILC collaboration computation of fBf_B, fBsf_{B_s}, fDf_D, fDsf_{D_s} and their ratios. Progress over the past year includes: better statistics and plateaus at β=6.52\beta=6.52 (quenched), β=5.6\beta=5.6 (NF=2N_F=2) and β=5.445\beta=5.445 (NF=2N_F=2), new runs with a wide range of dynamical quark masses at β=5.5\beta=5.5 (NF=2N_F=2), an estimate of the systematic errors due to the chiral extrapolation, and an improved analysis which consistently takes into account both the correlations in the data at every stage and the systematic effects due to changing fitting ranges.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9608092,
  title  = {Update on $f_B$},
  author = {The MILC Collaboration and C. Bernard and T. Blum and T. DeGrand and C. DeTar and Steven Gottlieb and U. M. Heller and J. Hetrick and C. McNeile and K. Rummukainen and A. Soni and R. Sugar and D. Toussaint and M. Wingate},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9608092},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

Poster presented by C. Bernard at LATTICE96(heavy quarks); 4 pages of LaTeX, uses espcrc2 and epsf, four postscript figures included

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