Abstract
We present a progress report on our calculation of the decay constants fB and fBs from lattice- QCD simulations with highly-improved staggered quarks. Simulations are carried out with several heavy valence-quark masses on (2+1+1)-flavor ensembles that include charm sea quarks. We include data at six lattice spacings and several light sea-quark masses, including an approximately physical-mass ensemble at all but the smallest lattice spacing, 0.03 fm. This range of parameters provides excellent control of the continuum extrapolation to zero lattice spacing and of heavy-quark discretization errors. Finally, using the heavy-quark effective theory expansion we present a method of extracting from the same correlation functions the charm- and bottom-quark masses as well as some low-energy constants appearing in the heavy-quark expansion.
Original language | English (US) |
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Journal | Proceedings of Science |
Volume | Part F128557 |
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State | Published - 2016 |
Event | 34th Annual International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, LATTICE 2016 - Southampton, United Kingdom Duration: Jul 24 2016 → Jul 30 2016 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General