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Preliminary results of the heavy-light meson spectrum using chirally improved light quarks
Using a ``wall'' of quark point sources, we invert the chirally improved
Dirac operator to create an ``incoherent'' collection of quark propagators
which originate from all spatial points of the source time slice. The
lowest-order NRQCD approximation is used to create heavy-quark propagators from
the same wall source. However, since the numerical cost involved in computing
such heavy-quark propagators is low, we are able to use a number of source
gauge paths to establish coherence between the heavy and light quarks at
several spatial separations. The resulting collection of heavy-light meson
correlators is analyzed to extract the corresponding mass spectrum.Comment: 3 pages, 1 figure, Lattice2004(spectrum), minor corrections adde
Energies of B_s meson excited states - a lattice study
This is a follow-up to our earlier work on the energies and radial
distributions of heavy-light mesons. The heavy quark is taken to be static
(infinitely heavy) and the light quark has a mass about that of the strange
quark. We now concentrate on the energies of the excited states with higher
angular momentum and with a radial node. A new improvement is the use of
hypercubic blocking in the time direction.
The calculation is carried out with dynamical fermions on a 16 cubed times 32
lattice with a lattice spacing approximately 0.1 fm generated using a
non-perturbatively improved clover action.
In nature the closest equivalent of this heavy-light system is the B_s meson,
which allows us to compare our lattice calculations to experimental results
(where available) or to give a prediction where the excited states,
particularly P-wave states, should lie. We pay special attention to the
spin-orbit splitting, to see which one of the states (for a given angular
momentum L) has the lower energy. An attempt is made to understand these
results in terms of the Dirac equation.Comment: 35 pages. v3: Data from two new lattices added. New results in
several chapter
Decays of mesons with charm quarks on the lattice
We investigate mesons containing charm quarks on fine lattices with a^{-1}
\sim 5 GeV. The quenched approximation is employed using the Wilson gauge
action at \beta = 6.6 and nonperturbatively O(a) improved Wilson quarks. We
present results for decay constants using various interpolating fields and give
preliminary results for form factors of semileptonic decays of D_s mesons to
light pseudoscalar mesons.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, talk presented at the XXV International Symposium
on Lattice Field Theory, 30 July - 4 August 2007, Regensburg, German
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