Quenched lattice calculation of the vector channel B ---> D* l nu decay rate
Jul, 2008
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We calculate, in the continuum limit of quenched lattice QCD, the form factor that enters the decay rate of the semileptonic decay B → D ⋆ ℓ ν . By using the step scaling method (SSM), previously introduced to handle two scale problems in lattice QCD, and by adopting flavor twisted boundary conditions we extract F B → D ⋆ ( w ) at finite momentum transfer ( w ⩾ 1 ) and at the physical values of the heavy quark masses. Our results can be used in order to extract the CKM matrix element V c b by the experimental decay rate without model dependent extrapolations. The value of V c b agrees with the one obtained from the B → D ℓ ν channel and makes us confident that the quenched approximation well applies to these transitions.- approximation: quenching
- quantum chromodynamics
- lattice field theory
- B: decay rate
- boundary condition: twist
- B: semileptonic decay
- form factor: decay
- CKM matrix
- continuum limit
- scaling: finite size
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