Bottomonium and B results from full lattice QCD

C. T.H. Davies, B. Colquhoun, B. Galloway, G. C. Donald, J. Koponen, R. J. Dowdall, R. Horgan, E. Follana, G. P. Lepage, C. Mcneile

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Abstract

We have developed two methods for handling b quarks in lattice QCD. One uses NRQCD (now improved to include radiative corrections) and the other uses Highly Improved Staggered Quarks (HISQ), extrapolating to the b quark from lighter masses and using multiple lattice spacings to control discretisation errors. Comparison of results for the two different methods gives confidence in estimates of lattice QCD systematic errors, since they are very different in these two cases. Here we show results for heavyonium hyperfine splittings and vector current-current correlator moments using HISQ quarks, to add to earlier results testing the heavy HISQ method with pseudoscalar mesons. We also show the form factor for B → πlv decay at zero recoil using NRQCD b quarks and u=d quarks with physical masses. This allows us to test the soft pion theorem relation ( fB(q2 max) = fB= fπ ) accurately and we find good agreement as Mπ →0.

Original languageEnglish
Article number438
JournalProceedings of Science
Volume29-July-2013
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, LATTICE 2013 - Mainz, Germany
Duration: 29 Jul 20133 Aug 2013

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Multidisciplinary

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