Nagoya University: Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI)

Nagoya University

Japanese


KMI Theory Seminar
"Heavy hadron axial couplings from lattice QCD"
David Lin
(Institute of Physics, National Chiao-Tung University)
July 23, 2012 (Mon) 17:00-
KMI Science Symposia (ES635)
Abstract:
The LHC will reinvigorate physics of the b-hadrons with a large amount of experimental data, in particular for the single-b baryons. To make use of these data in flavour physics and CKM-related topics, it is essential to have good control of the non-perturbative QCD effects. In this talk, I present a recent determination of the axial couplings amongst single-b hadrons and pions. This calculation was performed using next-to-leading order chiral perturbation theory and lattice QCD at pion masses between 227 MeV and 352 MeV with 2+1 flavours of dynamical fermions. These couplings are important quantities for controlling chiral extrapolations for all lattice computations of b-hadron spectrum and matrix elements. They can also be used to predict decay widths of these heavy hadrons.
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