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Semileptonic $B_{(s)}$ decays are of great phenomenological interest because they allow to extract CKM matrix elements or test lepton flavour universality. Taking advantage of existing data, we explore extracting form factors for vector…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-12-24 Anastasia Boushmelev , Matthew Black , Oliver Witzel

We report on our determinations of $B\to \pi\ell\nu$, $B_s\to K \ell \nu$ and $B_s\to D_s \ell \nu$ semileptonic form factors. In addition we discuss the determination of $R$-ratios testing lepton-flavor universality and suggest an improved…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-21 Jonathan Flynn , Ryan Hill , Andreas Juettner , Amarjit Soni , J. Tobias Tsang , Oliver Witzel

Semileptonic $B_{(s)}$ decays are of great phenomenological interest because they allow to determine e.g. CKM matrix elements or test lepton flavor universality. Taking advantage of already existing lattice data, we demonstrate the analysis…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-31 Anastasia Boushmelev , Matthew Black , Oliver Witzel

Precise theoretical predictions derived from the Standard Model are a key ingredient in searches for new physics in the flavor sector. The large mass and long lifetime of the $b$ quark make processes involving $b$ quarks of particular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-09 Jonathan M. Flynn , Ryan C. Hill , Andreas Jüttner , Amarjit Soni , J. Tobias Tsang , Oliver Witzel

$B$-physics is one of the most promising windows to find new physics in the flavor sector. One key ingredient to these searches are precise theoretical predictions derived from the Standard Model. Focusing at the nonperturbative QCD…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-12-20 Edwin Lizarazo , Oliver Witzel

We discuss first results for the computation of short distance contributions to semileptonic form factors for the rare $B$ decays $B \to K^{*} \ell^+\ell^-$ and $B_s \to \phi \ell^+ \ell^-$. Our simulations are based on RBC/UKQCD's…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-11-23 Jonathan Flynn , Andreas Jüttner , Taichi Kawanai , Edwin Lizarazo , Oliver Witzel

We present updates for our nonperturbative lattice QCD calculations to determine semileptonic form factors for exclusive $B\to \pi\ell\nu$, $B\to D \ell\nu$, $B_s\to K\ell \nu$, and $B_s\to D_s\ell\nu$ decays. Our calculation is based on…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-12-23 Jonathan Flynn , Ryan Hill , Andreas Jüttner , Amarjit Soni , Justus Tobias Tsang , Oliver Witzel

Semileptonic $B_s \to K \ell \nu$ decays provide an alternative $b$-decay channel to determine the CKM matrix element $|V_{ub}|$, and to obtain a $R$-ratio to investigate lepton-flavor-universality violations. Results for the CKM matrix…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-06-21 Jonathan M. Flynn , Ryan C. Hill , Andreas Jüttner , Amarjit Soni , J. Tobias Tsang , Oliver Witzel

We present a calculation of the B -> pi l nu form factors with domain-wall light quarks and relativistic b-quarks on the lattice. We work with the 2+1 flavor domain-wall fermion and Iwasaki gauge-field ensembles generated by the RBC and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-11-06 Taichi Kawanai , Ruth S. Van de Water , Oliver Witzel

We report on a calculation of form factors for the semileptonic decay of $B$ meson to pion on $2+1$-flavour lattices with lattice spacings from 0.080 fm down to 0.044 fm. Using the M\"obius domain wall fermion action for both sea and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-01-09 Brian Colquhoun , Shoji Hashimoto , Takashi Kaneko , Jonna Koponen

Semi-leptonic $B_s \to K \ell \nu$ and $B_s \to D_s \ell \nu$ decays provide an alternative $b$-decay channel to determine the CKM matrix elements $|V_{ub}|$ and $|V_{cb}|$ or to obtain $R$-ratios to investigate lepton flavor universality…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-03-07 Jonathan M. Flynn , Ryan C. Hill , Andreas Jüttner , Amarjit Soni , Justus Tobias Tsang , Oliver Witzel

Using a fully relativistic lattice fermion action, we compute the form factors of the semileptonic decay $B\to\pi\ell\nu$, which is required for the determination of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $|V_{ub}|$. We employ the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-01-03 Brian Colquhoun , Shoji Hashimoto , Takashi Kaneko , Jonna Koponen

We use lattice QCD to calculate the form factors $f_+(q^2)$ and $f_0(q^2)$ for the semileptonic decay $B_s\to K\ell\nu$. Our calculation uses six MILC asqtad 2+1 flavor gauge-field ensembles with three lattice spacings. At the smallest and…

We calculate the form factors for the semileptonic decays $B_s\to K\ell\nu$ and $B\to K\ell\ell$ with lattice QCD. We work at several lattice spacings and a range of light quark masses, using the MILC 2+1-flavor asqtad ensembles. We use the…

We study the exclusive semileptonic $B$-meson decays $B\to K(\pi)\ell^+\ell^-$, $B\to K(\pi)\nu\bar\nu$, and $B\to\pi\tau\nu$, computing observables in the Standard model using the recent lattice-QCD results for the underlying form factors…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-16 Daping Du , A. X. El-Khadra , Steven Gottlieb , A. S. Kronfeld , J. Laiho , E. Lunghi , R. S. Van de Water , Ran Zhou

We report on form factors for the B->K l^+ l^- semi-leptonic decay process. We use several lattice spacings from a=0.12 fm down to 0.06 fm and a variety of dynamical quark masses with 2+1 flavors of asqtad quarks provided by the MILC…

We calculate the $B \to D^{(*)} \ell \nu$ form factors in 2+1 flavor relativistic lattice QCD by employing the M\"obius domain-wall action for all quark flavors. Our simulations are carried out at lattice cut-offs $a^{-1} \sim 2.5$, 3.6 and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-28 T. Kaneko , Y. Aoki , B. Colquhoun , M. Faur , H. Fukaya , S. Hashimoto , J. Koponen , E. Kou

We update the lattice calculation of the $B\to\pi$ semileptonic form factors, which have important applications to the CKM matrix element $|V_{ub}|$ and the $B\to\pi\ell^+\ell^-$ rare decay. We use MILC asqtad ensembles with $N_f=2+1$ sea…

In this work, we derive the form factors and compute the branching fractions for the semitauonic decay modes, $B \to D^{(*)}\,\tau\,\nu_{\tau}$, $B_s \to D_s^{(*)}\,\tau\,\nu_{\tau}$, $B_c \to \eta_c\,(J/\psi)\,\tau\,\nu_{\tau}$, and $B_c…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-08 Sonali Patnaik

We calculate form-factor ratios between the semileptonic decays \bar{B}->D^+\ell^-\bar{\nu} and \bar{B}_s->D_s^+\ell^-\bar{\nu} with lattice QCD. These ratios are a key theoretical input in a new strategy to determine the fragmentation…

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