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Width difference in the $B_s$-$\bar{B}_s$ system with lattice NRQCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We compute the matrix element of the four-quark operator \OpS\Op_S = bˉ(1γ5)sbˉ(1γ5)s\bar{b}(1-\gamma_5) s \bar{b} (1-\gamma_5) s in the BsBˉsB_s-\bar{B}_s mixing on the lattice using NRQCD, which gives a leading contribution in the calculation of the width difference ΔΓs\Delta\Gamma_s in the 1/mb1/m_b expansion. Using the next-to-leading formula of Beneke \textit{et al.}, we obtain (ΔΓ/Γ)s(\Delta\Gamma/\Gamma)_s = 0.151(37)(36)(17), where the the first error reflects the uncertainty of fBsf_{B_s} = 245(30) MeV, the second error comes from our calculation of the matrix element of \OpS\Op_S, and the third represents unknown 1/mb1/m_b correction.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9912318,
  title  = {Width difference in the $B_s$-$\bar{B}_s$ system with lattice NRQCD},
  author = {S. Hashimoto and K-I. Ishikawa and T. Onogi and N. Yamada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9912318},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

17 pages, 6 figures, uses REVTeX, corrected typos, conservative systematic error

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