|Vub | from B →π ν decays and (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD
|Vub | from B →π ν decays and (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevd.92.014024
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发表时间:
2015-03
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5
通讯作者:
Fermilab Lattice;M. Bailey;A. Bazavov;C. Bernard;C. Bouchard;C. DeTar;D. Du;A. El-Khadra;
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Fermilab Lattice;M. Bailey;A. Bazavov;C. Bernard;C. Bouchard;C. DeTar;D. Du;A. El-Khadra;
We present a lattice-QCD calculation of the B → πlν semileptonic form factors and a new determination of the CKM matrix element |Vub|. We use the MILC asqtad (2+1)-flavor lattice configurations at four lattice spacings and light-quark masses down to 1/20 of the physical strange-quark mass. We extrapolate the lattice form factors to the continuum using staggered chiral perturbation theory in the hard-pion and SU(2) limits. We employ a model-independent z parametrization to extrapolate our lattice form factors from large-recoil momentum to the full kinematic range. We introduce a new functional method to propagate information from the chiral-continuum extrapolation to the z expansion. We present our results together with a complete systematic error budget, including a covariance matrix to enable the combination of our form factors with other lattice-QCD and experimental results. To obtain |Vub|, we simultaneously fit the experimental data for the B → πlν differential decay rate obtained by the BABAR and Belle collaborations together with our lattice form-factor results. We find |Vub|=(3.72±0.16) × 10–3, where the error is from the combined fit to lattice plus experiments and includes all sources of uncertainty. Our form-factor results bring the QCD error on |Vub| to the same level as themore » experimental error. We also provide results for the B → πlν vector and scalar form factors obtained from the combined lattice and experiment fit, which are more precisely determined than from our lattice-QCD calculation alone. Lastly, these results can be used in other phenomenological applications and to test other approaches to QCD.« less