Challenges in semileptonic B decays Gambino, P.; Kronfeld, A. S.; Rotondo, M. ...
The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields,
10/2020, Volume:
80, Issue:
10
Journal Article
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Two of the elements of the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa quark mixing matrix,
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, are extracted from semileptonic
B
decays. The results of the
B
factories, analysed in the light of ...the most recent theoretical calculations, remain puzzling, because for both
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ub
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the exclusive and inclusive determinations are in clear tension. Further, measurements in the
τ
channels at Belle, Babar, and LHCb show discrepancies with the Standard Model predictions, pointing to a possible violation of lepton flavor universality. LHCb and Belle II have the potential to resolve these issues in the next few years. This article summarizes the discussions and results obtained at the MITP workshop held on April 9–13, 2018, in Mainz, Germany, with the goal to develop a medium-term strategy of analyses and calculations aimed at solving the puzzles. Lattice and continuum theorists working together with experimentalists have discussed how to reshape the semileptonic analyses in view of the much higher luminosity expected at Belle II, searching for ways to systematically validate the theoretical predictions in both exclusive and inclusive
B
decays, and to exploit the rich possibilities at LHCb.
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We calculate the up-, down-, strange-, charm-, and bottom-quark masses using the MILC highly improved staggered-quark ensembles with four flavors of dynamical quarks. We use ensembles at six lattice ...spacings ranging from a≈0.15 to 0.03 fm and with both physical and unphysical values of the two light and the strange sea-quark masses. We use a new method based on heavy-quark effective theory (HQET) to extract quark masses from heavy-light pseudoscalar meson masses. Combining our analysis with our separate determination of ratios of light-quark masses we present masses of the up, down, strange, charm, and bottom quarks. Our results for the MS¯-renormalized masses are mu(2 GeV)=2.130(41) MeV, md(2 GeV)=4.675(56) MeV, ms(2 GeV)=92.47(69) MeV, mc(3 GeV)=983.7(5.6) MeV, and mc(mc)=1273(10) MeV, with four active flavors; and mb(mb)=4195(14) MeV with five active flavors. We also obtain ratios of quark masses mc/ms=11.783(25), mb/ms=53.94(12), and mb/mc=4.578(8). The result for mc matches the precision of the most precise calculation to date, and the other masses and all quoted ratios are the most precise to date. Moreover, these results are the first with a perturbative accuracy of αs4. As byproducts of our method, we obtain the matrix elements of HQET operators with dimension 4 and 5: Λ¯MRS=555(31) MeV in the minimal renormalon-subtracted (MRS) scheme, μπ2=0.05(22) GeV2, and μG2(mb)=0.38(2) GeV2. The MRS scheme Phys. Rev. D 97, 034503 (2018) is the key new aspect of our method.
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All lattice-QCD calculations of the hadronic-vacuum-polarization contribution to the muon's anomalous magnetic moment to date have been performed with degenerate up- and down-quark masses. Here we ...calculate directly the strong-isospin-breaking correction to a_{μ}^{HVP} for the first time with physical values of m_{u} and m_{d} and dynamical u, d, s, and c quarks, thereby removing this important source of systematic uncertainty. We obtain a relative shift to be applied to lattice-QCD results obtained with degenerate light-quark masses of δa_{μ}^{HVP,m_{u}≠m_{d}}=+1.5(7)%, in agreement with estimates from phenomenology.
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The study of heavy-light meson masses should provide a way to determine renormalized quark masses and other properties of heavy-light mesons. In the context of lattice QCD, for example, it is ...possible to calculate hadronic quantities for arbitrary values of the quark masses. In this paper, we address two aspects relating heavy-light meson masses to the quark masses. First, we introduce a definition of the renormalized quark mass that is free of both scale dependence and renormalon ambiguities, and discuss its relation to more familiar definitions of the quark mass. We then show how this definition enters a merger of the descriptions of heavy-light masses in heavy-quark effective theory and in chiral perturbation theory (χPT). For practical implementations of this merger, we extend the one-loop χPT corrections to lattice gauge theory with heavy-light mesons composed of staggered fermions for both quarks. Putting everything together, we obtain a practical formula to describe all-staggered heavy-light meson masses in terms of quark masses as well as some lattice artifacts related to staggered fermions. In a companion paper, we use this function to analyze lattice-QCD data and extract quark masses and some matrix elements defined in heavy-quark effective theory.
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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 analyze over twenty isospin-symmetric ensembles with six lattice spacings down to a≈0.03 fm and several values of the light-quark mass down to the physical value 12(mu+md). We employ the highly-improved staggered-quark (HISQ) action for the sea and valence quarks; on the finest lattice spacings, discretization errors are sufficiently small that we can calculate the B-meson decay constants with the HISQ action for the first time directly at the physical b-quark mass. We obtain the most precise determinations to-date of the D- and B-meson decay constants and their ratios, fD+=212.7(0.6) MeV, fDs=249.9(0.4) MeV, fDs/fD+=1.1749(16), fB+=189.4(1.4) MeV, fBs=230.7(1.3) MeV, fBs/fB+=1.2180(47), where the errors include statistical and all systematic uncertainties. Our results for the B-meson decay constants are three times more precise than the previous best lattice-QCD calculations, and bring the QCD errors in the standard model predictions for the rare leptonic decays B¯(Bs→μ+μ−)=3.64(11)×10−9, B¯(B0→μ+μ−)=1.00(3)×10−11, and B¯(B0→μ+μ−)/B¯(Bs→μ+μ−)=0.00264(8) to well below other sources of uncertainty. As a byproduct of our analysis, we also update our previously published results for the light-quark-mass ratios and the scale-setting quantities fp4s, Mp4s, and Rp4s. We obtain the most precise lattice-QCD determination to date of the ratio fK+/fπ+=1.1950( −23+16) MeV.
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We calculate the contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment hadronic vacuum polarization from the connected diagrams of up and down quarks, omitting electromagnetism. We employ QCD ...gauge-field configurations with dynamical u, d, s, and c quarks and the physical pion mass, and analyze five ensembles with lattice spacings ranging from a≈0.06 to 0.15 fm. The up- and down-quark masses in our simulations have equal masses ml. We obtain, in this world where all pions have the mass of the π0, 1010aμll(conn.)=637.8(8.8), in agreement with independent lattice-QCD calculations. We then combine this value with published lattice-QCD results for the connected contributions from strange, charm, and bottom quarks, and an estimate of the uncertainty due to the fact that our calculation does not include strong-isospin breaking, electromagnetism, or contributions from quark-disconnected diagrams. Our final result for the total O(α2) hadronic-vacuum polarization to the muon's anomalous magnetic moment is 1010aμHVP,LO=699(15)u,d(1)s,c,b, where the errors are from the light-quark and heavy-quark contributions, respectively. Our result agrees with both ab-initio lattice-QCD calculations and phenomenological determinations from experimental e+e−-scattering data. It is 1.3σ below the "no new physics" value of the hadronic-vacuum-polarization contribution inferred from combining the BNL E821 measurement of aμ with theoretical calculations of the other contributions.
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We study the exclusive semileptonic B-meson decays B arrow right K(pi)scriptl super(+)scriptl super(-), B arrow right K(pi)nunu super(-), and B arrow right pitaunu, computing observables in the ...Standard Model using the recent lattice-QCD results for the underlying form factors from the Fermilab Lattice and MILC collaborations. These processes provide theoretically clean windows into physics beyond the Standard Model because the hadronic uncertainties are now under good control for suitably binned observables. For example, the resulting partially integrated branching fractions for B arrow right pi mu super(+) mu super(-) and B arrow right K mu super(+) mu super(-) outside the charmonium resonance region are 1-2sigma higher than the LHCb collaboration's recent measurements, where the theoretical and experimental errors are commensurate. The combined tension is 1.7sigma. Combining the Standard-Model rates with LHCb's measurements yields values for the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements V sub()td7.45(6 9)x10 super(-3), V sub(t)s35.7(1.5)x10 super(-3), and V sub(t)dV sub(t)s0.201(20), which are compatible with the values obtained from neutral B sub(()smeson oscillations and have competitive uncertainties. Alternatively, taking the CKM matrix elements from unitarity, we constrain new-physics contributions at the electroweak scale. The constraints on the Wilson coefficients Re(C sub(9)) and Re(C sub(10)) from B arrow right pi mu super(+) mu super(-) and B arrow right K mu super(+) mu super(-) are competitive with those from B arrow right K* mu super(+ ) mu super(-), and display a 2.0sigma tension with the Standard Model. Our predictions for B arrow right K(pi)nunu and B arrow right pitaunu are close to the current experimental limits.
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We present the first lattice QCD calculation with realistic sea quark content of the D+-meson decay constant f(D+). We use the MILC Collaboration's publicly available ensembles of lattice gauge ...fields, which have a quark sea with two flavors (up and down) much lighter than a third (strange). We obtain f(D+)=201+/-3+/-17 MeV, where the errors are statistical and a combination of systematic errors. We also obtain f(Ds)=249+/-3+/-16 MeV for the Ds meson.
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