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We present a study of the heavy-light spectrum and of the D- and B-meson decay constants. The results wer e obtained in the quenched approximation, by using the non-perturbatively improved Clover lattice action at beta=6.2, with a sample of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-03-19 D. Becirevic , Ph. Boucaud , J. P. Leroy , V. Lubicz , G. Martinelli , F. Mescia , F. Rapuano

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…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Shoji Hashimoto

We present determinations of the B meson decay constant f_B and of the ratio f_{B_s}/f_B using the MILC collaboration unquenched gauge configurations which include three flavors of light sea quarks. The mass of one of the sea quarks is kept…

We present a lattice investigation of the heavy-light meson decay constants using Wilson light quarks and NRQCD heavy quarks, partially including the effects of dynamical sea quarks. We calculate the pseudoscalar and vector decay constants…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-01-18 S. Collins , U. M. Heller , J. Sloan , J. Shigemitsu , A. Ali Khan , C. T. H. Davies

We present a progress report on new calculations of B and B_s meson decay constants employing NRQCD heavy and HISQ light valence quarks and using MILC N_f = 2+1 AsqTad lattices. Bare quark masses have been retuned in accord with HPQCD's new…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-10-27 Junko Shigemitsu , Heechang Na , Christine Davies , Ron Horgan , Chris Monahan , Peter Lepage

Neutral $B$ meson mixing matrix elements and $B$ meson decay constants are calculated. Static approximation is used for $b$ quark and domain-wall fermion formalism is employed for light quarks. The calculations are carried out on $2+1$…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-30 Yasumichi Aoki , Tomomi Ishikawa , Taku Izubuchi , Christoph Lehner , Amarjit Soni

We review recent results for B_d and B_s mixing parameters using MILC N_f=2+1 lattices, NRQCD b-quarks and AsqTad light quarks. Latest numbers for decay constants f_B and f_{B_s} are also presented. Combining our lattice results with…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-05 J. Shigemitsu , C. T. H. Davies , E. Follana , E. Gamiz , E. Gregory , G. P. Lepage , H. Na , M. Wingate

We present results for the spectrum and decay constants of B mesons from NRQCD using dynamical configurations at $\beta=5.6$ with two flavours of staggered fermions. The light quarks are generated using the Clover action with tadpole…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Collins , U. M. Heller , J. Sloan , J. Shigemitsu , A. Ali Khan , C. T. H. Davies

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 calculate the leptonic decay constants of heavy-light pseudoscalar mesons with charm and bottom quarks in lattice quantum chromodynamics on four-flavor QCD gauge-field configurations with dynamical $u$, $d$, $s$, and $c$ quarks. We…

We present an update of our calculations of the decay constants of the D, D_s, B, and B_s mesons in unquenched 2+1 flavor QCD. We use the MILC library of improved staggered gauge ensembles at lattice spacings 0.09, 0.12, and 0.15 fm, clover…

We present a precise lattice QCD determination of the b-quark mass, of the B and Bs decay constants and first results for the B-meson bag parameters. For our computation we employ the so-called ratio method and our results benefit from the…

Lattice NRQCD with leading finite lattice spacing errors removed is used to calculate decay constants of mesons made up of heavy quarks. Quenched simulations are done with a tadpole improved gauge action containing plaquette and six-link…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 B. D. Jones , R. M. Woloshyn

We extend the picture of $B$-meson decay constants obtained in lattice QCD beyond those of the $B$, $B_s$ and $B_c$ to give the first full lattice QCD results for the $B^*$, $B^*_s$ and $B^*_c$. We use improved NonRelativistic QCD for the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-07-01 B. Colquhoun , C. T. H. Davies , R. J. Dowdall , J. Kettle , J. Koponen , G. P. Lepage , A. T. Lytle

We present updates of our results for neutral $B$-meson mixing and leptonic decay constants obtained in the quenched approximation from a mean-field-improved Sheikholeslami-Wohlert action at two values of lattice spacing. We consider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-23 Laurent Lellouch , C. -J. David Lin

We report on our progress to obtain the decay constants f_B and f_Bs from lattice-QCD simulations on the RBC-UKQCD Collaborations 2+1 flavor domain-wall Iwasaki lattices. Using domain-wall light quarks and relativistic b-quarks we analyze…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-17 Oliver Witzel

We present a computation of B-meson decay constants from lattice QCD simulations within the framework of Heavy Quark Effective Theory for the b-quark. The next-to-leading order corrections in the HQET expansion are included…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-07-17 F. Bernardoni , B. Blossier , J. Bulava , M. Della Morte , P. Fritzsch , N. Garron , A. Gérardin , J. Heitger , G. von Hippel , H. Simma , R. Sommer

We improve a previous quenched result for heavy-light pseudoscalar meson decay constants with the light quark taken to be the strange quark. A finer lattice resolution (a ~ 0.05 fm) in the continuum limit extrapolation of the data computed…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Michele Della Morte , Stephan Durr , Damiano Guazzini , Jochen Heitger , Andreas Juttner , Rainer Sommer

We calculate the leptonic decay constants of B_{(s)} and D_{(s)} mesons in lattice QCD using staggered light quarks and Fermilab bottom and charm quarks. We compute the heavy-light meson correlation functions on the MILC asqtad-improved…

We present preliminary results for the decay constant of the Bs meson, fBs, at three values of beta=5.7, 6.0 and 6.2 using NRQCD and clover fermions for the heavy and light quarks respectively. As a consistency check the decay constant has…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Collins , C. T. H. Davies , J. Hein , J. Shigemitsu , C. Morningstar , A. Ali Khan