Precision Global Determination of the Decay Rate
Abstract
We perform the first global fit to inclusive measurements using a model-independent treatment of the nonperturbative -quark distribution function, with next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic resummation and fixed-order contributions. The normalization of the decay rate, given by , is sensitive to physics beyond the standard model (SM). We determine , in good agreement with the SM prediction, and the -quark mass . Our results suggest that the uncertainties in the extracted rate have been underestimated by up to a factor of 2, leaving more room for beyond-SM contributions.
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); National Science Foundation (NSF); Simons Foundation; German Research Foundation (DFG); Helmholtz Association
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- SIMBA Collaboration
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1817929
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- OSTI ID: 1825261
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- AC02-05CH11231; SC0011090; PHY-1607611; TA 867/1-1; BE 6075/1-1; W2/W3-116
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- Published Article
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- Physical Review Letters
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- Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 127 Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
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- American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Flavor changing neutral currents; Heavy quark effective theory; Leptonic, semileptonic & radiative decays; Perturbative QCDRare decays
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Bernlochner, Florian U., Lacker, Heiko, Ligeti, Zoltan, Stewart, Iain W., Tackmann, Frank J., Tackmann, Kerstin, and SIMBA Collaboration. Precision Global Determination of the B → X s γ Decay Rate. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.102001.
Bernlochner, Florian U., Lacker, Heiko, Ligeti, Zoltan, Stewart, Iain W., Tackmann, Frank J., Tackmann, Kerstin, & SIMBA Collaboration. Precision Global Determination of the B → X s γ Decay Rate. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.102001
Bernlochner, Florian U., Lacker, Heiko, Ligeti, Zoltan, Stewart, Iain W., Tackmann, Frank J., Tackmann, Kerstin, and SIMBA Collaboration. Tue .
"Precision Global Determination of the B → X s γ Decay Rate". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.102001.
@article{osti_1817929,
title = {Precision Global Determination of the B → X s γ Decay Rate},
author = {Bernlochner, Florian U. and Lacker, Heiko and Ligeti, Zoltan and Stewart, Iain W. and Tackmann, Frank J. and Tackmann, Kerstin and SIMBA Collaboration},
abstractNote = {We perform the first global fit to inclusive B→Xsγ measurements using a model-independent treatment of the nonperturbative b-quark distribution function, with next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic resummation and O(αs2) fixed-order contributions. The normalization of the B→Xsγ decay rate, given by |C7inclVtbVts*|2, is sensitive to physics beyond the standard model (SM). We determine |C7inclVtbVts*|=(14.77±0.51fit±0.59theory±0.08param)×10-3, in good agreement with the SM prediction, and the b-quark mass mb1S=(4.750±0.027fit±0.033theory±0.003param) GeV. Our results suggest that the uncertainties in the extracted B→Xsγ rate have been underestimated by up to a factor of 2, leaving more room for beyond-SM contributions.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.102001},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 10,
volume = 127,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Tue Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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