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semileptonic decay using lattice QCD with HISQ at physical pion masses
The quark flavor sector of the Standard Model is a fertile ground to look for
new physics effects through a unitarity test of the Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa
(CKM) matrix. We present a lattice QCD calculation of the scalar and the vector
form factors (over a large region including ) associated with
the semi-leptonic decay. This calculation will then
allow us to determine the central CKM matrix element, in the Standard
Model, by comparing the lattice QCD results for the form factors and the
experimental decay rate. This form factor calculation has been performed on the
MILC HISQ ensembles with the physical light quark masses.Comment: Proceedings for the 35th International Symposium on Lattice Field
Theory (Lattice 2017), 8 pages, 5 figure
Light meson form factors at high from lattice QCD
Measurements and theoretical calculations of meson form factors are essential
for our understanding of internal hadron structure and QCD, the dynamics that
bind the quarks in hadrons. The pion electromagnetic form factor has been
measured at small space-like momentum transfer ~GeV by pion
scattering from atomic electrons and at values up to ~GeV by
scattering electrons from the pion cloud around a proton. On the other hand, in
the limit of very large (or infinite) , perturbation theory is
applicable. This leaves a gap in the intermediate where the form factors
are not known.
As a part of their 12 GeV upgrade Jefferson Lab will measure pion and kaon
form factors in this intermediate region, up to of ~GeV. This is
then an ideal opportunity for lattice QCD to make an accurate prediction ahead
of the experimental results. Lattice QCD provides a from-first-principles
approach to calculate form factors, and the challenge here is to control the
statistical and systematic uncertainties as errors grow when going to higher
values.
Here we report on a calculation that tests the method using an
meson, a 'heavy pion' made of strange quarks, and also present preliminary
results for kaon and pion form factors. We use the ensembles made
by the MILC collaboration and Highly Improved Staggered Quarks, which allows us
to obtain high statistics. The HISQ action is also designed to have small
discretisation errors. Using several light quark masses and lattice spacings
allows us to control the chiral and continuum extrapolation and keep systematic
errors in check.Comment: Presented at Lattice 2017, the 35th International Symposium on
Lattice Field Theory at Granada, Spain (18-24 June 2017
Nonperturbative tests of the renormalization of mixed clover-staggered currents in lattice QCD
The Fermilab Lattice and MILC collaborations have shown in one-loop lattice QCD perturbation theory that the renormalization constants of vector and axial-vector mixed clover-asqtad currents are closely related to the product of those for clover-clover and asqtad-asqtad (local) vector currents. To be useful for future higher precision calculations this relationship must be valid beyond one-loop and very general. We test its validity nonperturbatively using clover and Highly Improved Staggered (HISQ) strange quarks, utilising the absolute normalization of the HISQ temporal axial current. We find that the renormalization of the mixed current differs from the square root of the product of the pure HISQ and pure clover currents by 2−3%. We also compare discretization errors between the clover and HISQ formalisms
Precision tests of the J/psi from full lattice QCD: mass, leptonic width and radiative decay rate to eta_c
We show results from calculations in full lattice QCD of the mass, leptonic width and radiative decay rate to eta_c of the J/psi meson. These provide few % tests of QCD. Another (1.5%) test comes from comparison of time-moments of the vector charmonium correlator with results derived from the experimental values of R(e+e- to hadrons) in the charm region
Semileptonic Decays, and 2 Row Unitarity from Lattice QCD
We present a new calculation of the semileptonic
form factor at based on HISQ charm and
light valence quarks on MILC lattices. Using methods developed
recently for HPQCD's study of decays, we find . This signifies a better than factor of two
improvement in errors for this quantity compared to previous calculations.
Combining the new result with CLEO-c branching fraction data, we extract the
CKM matrix element , where the first
error comes from experiment and the second from theory. With a total error of
\% the accuracy of direct determination of from
semileptonic decays has become comparable to (and in good agreement with) that
from neutrino scattering. We also check for second row unitarity using this new
, HPQCD's earlier and from the Fermilab Lattice
\& MILC collaborations. We find , improving on the current PDG2010 value.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures, and 4 table
Heavy-light current-current correlators
The current-current correlator method has been used successfully to obtain
very accurate results for quark masses and the coupling alpha_s. The
calculations were done using Highly Improved Staggered Quarks (HISQ) and
heavy-heavy meson correlators. We now extend this work to the significantly
more challenging heavy-light case, reporting the first results here. The aim is
to determine nonperturbative Z factors for NRQCD heavy-light currents, but
first we test the method in the HISQ case where Z=1.Comment: 7 pages. Presented at the XXVIII International Symposium on Lattice
Field Theory (Lattice 2010), June 14-19 2010, Villasimius, Ital
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