Quenched lattice calculation of the vector channel B ---> D* l nu decay rate

Jul, 2008
11 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 807 (2009) 373-395
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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