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The decay constants of B, D and K mesons are computed in quenched lattice QCD at two different values of the coupling. The action and operators are O(a) improved with non-perturbative coefficients. The results are f_B=195(6)(+24/-23) MeV,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-17 K. C. Bowler , L. Del Debbio , J. M. Flynn , G. N. Lacagnina , V. I. Lesk , C. M. Maynard , D. G. Richards

Results from recent lattice calculations of the decay constants $f_B$ and $f_D$ are reviewed. A discussion of the methods currently used is presented, together with an outline of the various systematic effects involved.

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 Chris Allton

In a previous letter, we computed the decay constants of heavy pseudoscalar mesons in the framework of relativistic (instantaneous) Bethe-Salpeter method (full $0^-$ Salpeter equation), in this letter, we solve the full $1^-$ Salpeter…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Guo-Li Wang

We present a lattice NRQCD study of the B meson decay constant in the quenched approximation with emphasis given to the scaling behavior. The NRQCD action and the heavy-light axial current we use include all terms of order 1/M and the…

The decay constants of the heavy-light pseudoscalar mesons are studied in a high statistics run using the Wilson action at $\beta=6.0$ and $\beta=6.2$, and the clover action at $\beta=6.0$. The systematics of $O(a)$ discretisation errors…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 APE Collaboration

We present a lattice QCD calculation of the heavy-light decay constants f_B and f_Bs performed with Nf=2 maximally twisted Wilson fermions, at four values of the lattice spacing. The decay constants have been also computed in the static…

We present preliminary results for the B meson decay constant and masses of low-lying heavy-light mesons in the static limit. Calculations were performed on the lattice in the quenched approximation using multistate smearing functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 Anthony Duncan , Estia Eichten , Aida X. El-Khadra , Jonathan M. Flynn , Brian R. Hill , Hank Thacker

We calculate, in the continuum limit of quenched lattice QCD, the matrix elements of the heavy-heavy vector current between heavy-light pseudoscalar meson states. We present the form factors for different values of the initial and final…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 G. M. de Divitiis , R. Petronzio , N. Tantalo

We carry out a thorough analysis with the GEVP method to obtain ground-state and first-excited-state masses and decay constants of bottom-strange (pseudo-scalar and vector) mesons. This computation is done for quenched, nonperturbatively…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-05 Benoit Blossier , Michele Della Morte , Nicolas Garron , Georg von Hippel , Tereza Mendes , Hubert Simma , Rainer Sommer

We demonstrate how HQET and the Step Scaling Method for B-physics, pioneered by the Tor Vergata group, can be combined to reach a further improved precision. The observables considered are the mass of the b-quark and the B_s-meson decay…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-01-27 Damiano Guazzini , Rainer Sommer , Nazario Tantalo

We report on the computation of the $B_s$ meson decay constant in Heavy Quark Effective Theory on the lattice. The next to leading order corrections in the HQET expansion are included non-perturbatively. We estimate higher order…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-12-15 Benoît Blossier , Michele Della Morte , Nicolas Garron , Georg von Hippel , Tereza Mendes , Hubert Simma , Rainer Sommer

We summarize the present status of lattice gauge theory computations of the leptonic decay constants $f_D$ and $f_B$. The various sources of systematic errors are explained in a manner easily understood by the non--expert. The results…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Rainer Sommer

We summarize a computation of the leptonic decay constant f_D_s of the D_s-meson in quenched QCD on the lattice. We perform a direct simulation at the masses of the strange and the charm quarks at four different lattice spacings from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Juttner , Juri Rolf

We study the finite-size scaling of heavy-light mesons in the static limit. The most relevant effects are due to the pseudo-Goldstone boson cloud. In the HMChPT framework we compute two-point functions of left current densitities as well as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-05 Fabio Bernardoni , Pilar Hernandez , Silvia Necco

We review some decays that require knowledge of the decay constants of $0^{+}$ heavy-light mesons. We compute the decay constants of P-wave heavy-light mesons from unquenched lattice QCD, with two degenerate flavours of sea quarks, at a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 UKQCD Collaboration , G. Herdoiza , C. McNeile , C. Michael

We report on a study of B mesons on N_f = 2 full QCD configurations using an RG-improved gauge action, NRQCD heavy quark action and tadpole-improved clover light quark action. Results on the heavy-light spectrum and the decay constants from…

The results of an extensive study of B-meson properties in quenched lattice QCD are presented. The studies are carried out in the static quark limit where the b-quark is taken to be infinitely massive. Our computations rely on a multistate…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-02-01 A. Duncan , E. Eichten , J. Flynn , B. Hill , G. Hockney , H. Thacker

We report results of masses and decay constants of light and charmed pseudo-scalar mesons using lattice QCD with M\"obius domain-wall fermions. Using this formulation we are able to compute pseudo-scalar decay constants through the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-12-31 B. Fahy , G. Cossu , S. Hashimoto , T. Kaneko , J. Noaki , M. Tomii

We present results of a numerical calculation of lattice QCD with two degenerate flavors of dynamical quarks, identified with up and down quarks, and with a strange quark treated in the quenched approximation. The lattice action and…

We fit lattice-QCD data for light-pseudoscalar masses and decay constants, from HISQ configurations generated by MILC, to SU(3) staggered chiral perturbation theory. At present such fits have rather high values of chi^2/d.o.f., possibly due…