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Title: B s K ν decay from lattice QCD

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D.

We use lattice QCD to calculate the form factors f+(q2) and f0(q2) for the semileptonic decay Bs→Kℓν. Our calculation uses six MILC asqtad 2+1 flavor gauge-field ensembles with three lattice spacings. At the smallest and largest lattice spacing the light-quark sea mass is set to 1/10 the strange-quark mass. At the intermediate lattice spacing, we use four values for the light-quark sea mass ranging from 1/5 to 1/20 of the strange-quark mass. We use the asqtad improved staggered action for the light valence quarks, and the clover action with the Fermilab interpolation for the heavy valence bottom quark. We use SU(2) hard-kaon heavy-meson rooted staggered chiral perturbation theory to take the chiral-continuum limit. A functional z expansion is used to extend the form factors to the full kinematic range. We present predictions for the differential decay rate for both Bs→Kμν and Bs→Kτν. We also present results for the forward-backward asymmetry, the lepton polarization asymmetry, ratios of the scalar and vector form factors for the decays Bs→Kℓν and Bs→Dsℓν. Our results, together with future experimental measurements, can be used to determine the magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element |$$V_{ub}$$|.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States); Syracuse Univ., NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Organization:
Fermilab Lattice and MILC Collaborations
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; AC02-06CH11357; FG02-91ER40628; FC02-12ER41879; FG02-13ER42001; SC0015655; SC0010120; FG02-91ER40661; SC0010113; SC0010005; FG02-13ER41976; SC0012704; AC02-07CH11359; CNS-0421498; CNS-0420873; CNS-0420985; 12-S-15; SC0009998
OSTI ID:
1546825
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1527437; OSTI ID: 1764431; OSTI ID: 1834561; OSTI ID: 1903111
Report Number(s):
arXiv:1901.02561; FERMILAB-PUB-19-005-T; PRVDAQ; 034501
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D., Journal Name: Physical Review. D. Vol. 100 Journal Issue: 3; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 28 works
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Web of Science

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