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Finite nuclear mass $(Z\,\alpha)^2\,m/M\,E_F$ corrections to the hyperfine splitting in hydrogenic systems are calculated using a combined relativistic heavy particle and nonrelativistic quantum electrodynamics. The obtained results are in…
We present a comprehensive calculation of the energies, splittings and electromagnetic decay rates of the bottom charmed meson system. Our calculated result for the ground state lifetime is 0.38 \pm 0.03 ps, in good agreement with the…
We calculate the full spectrum of D-wave states in the Upsilon system in lattice QCD for the first time, using an improved version of NonRelativistic QCD on coarse and fine "second generation" gluon field configurations from the MILC…
We compute the hyperfine splitting in a heavy quarkonium composed of different flavors in next-to-leading logarithmic approximation using the nonrelativistic renormalization group. We predict the mass difference of the vector and…
The recent discoveries of the bottomonia states h_b(1P) and h_b(2P) confirm the quark model prediction, already verified in the charmonia sector, that the hyperfine splitting of P-wave mesons is very small. The striking agreement is…
We investigated the heavy-to-heavy semileptonic decay $\Omega_b^- \rightarrow \Omega_c^0 e \bar{\nu_e}$ within the framework of the Hypercentral Constituent Quark Model (HCQM). The ground-state masses of the involved baryons were evaluated…
Recent lattice calculations on the interaction energy of two heavy-light mesons (Q^2\bar{q}^2) are interpreted in terms of the potential of the corresponding single heavy-light meson (Q\bar{q}). This model leads to a large overestimate of…
We prove that Borel QCD sum rules for heavy-light currents yield very strong correlations between the $b$-quark mass $m_b$ and the $B$-meson decay constant $f_B$, namely, $\delta f_B/f_B\approx -8\,\delta m_b/m_b$. This fact opens the…
Resummation of large QCD radiative corrections, including leading and next-to-leading logarithms, in pion electromagnetic form factor is reviewed. Similar formalism is applied to exclusive processes involving heavy mesons, and leads to…
This is a summary of a detailed study of heavy-light meson excited state energies. Our lattice measurements include both radial and orbital excitations. Particular attention is paid to the spin-orbit splittings, to see which one of the…
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Simple and efficient "\lambda-method" and "\lambda/2-method" (\lambda is the resonant wavelength of laser radiation) based on nanometric-thickness cell filled with rubidium are implemented to study the splitting of hyperfine transitions of…
Based on a new, exact QCD factorization formula for the partial B->X_s+gamma decay rate with a restriction on large photon energy, improved predictions are presented for the partial moments <E_gamma> and <E_gamma^2>-<E_gamma>^2 of the…
The exclusive semileptonic heavy baryon decay \Lambda_b\to p l\bar\nu is investigated using light-cone sum rule method in both full QCD and HQET. The form factors describing the decay are calculated and used to predict the decay width and…
Non-relativistic QCD is applied for a lattice computation of the heavy-light meson decay constant in quenched approximation at $\beta=6.0$. Clear signals are obtained for the ground state at large times in the correlators, allowing a…
I review recent results for heavy-heavy spectroscopy using Lattice NRQCD. The NRQCD collaboration reports that spin-independent splittings for the $\Upsilon$ are scaling for a sensible range of $\beta$ values in the quenched approximation.…
We present our results of lattice calculations of $B$ parameters, which parameterize $\Delta B$=2 transition amplitudes together with the leptonic decay constant. Calculations are made in the quenched approximation at $\beta$=5.7, 5.9, 6.0…
During the last years, the ALPHA collaboration has been developing and implementing a method based on Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) to compute B-mesons observables through lattice simulations. Thanks to a non-perturbative matching to…
Invoked by the recent CMS observation regarding candidates of the $\chi_b(3P)$ multiplet, we analyze the ultrafine and mass splittings among $3P$ multiplet in our unquenched quark model (UQM) studies. The mass difference of $\chi_{b2}$ and…
The hyperfine splitting of the ground state of H-, Li-, and B-like ions is investigated in details within the range of nuclear numbers Z = 7-28. The rigorous QED approach together with the large-scale configuration-interaction…