heavy quark

Up-, down-, strange-, charm-, and bottom-quark masses from four-flavor lattice QCD

We calculate the up-, down-, strange-, charm-, and bottom-quark masses using the MILC highly improved staggered-quark ensembles with four flavors of dynamical quarks. We use ensembles at six lattice spacings ranging from a≈0.15 to 0.03 fm and with …

Short-distance matrix elements for $Dtextasciicircum0$-meson mixing for $N_f=2+1$ lattice QCD

We calculate in three-flavor lattice QCD the short-distance hadronic matrix elements of all five ΔC=2 four-fermion operators that contribute to neutral D-meson mixing both in and beyond the Standard Model. We use the MILC Collaboration’s Nf=2+1 …

$Bto Kltextasciicircum+ltextasciicircum-$ Decay Form Factors from Three-Flavor Lattice QCD

We compute the form factors for the B→Kl+l- semileptonic decay process in lattice QCD using gauge-field ensembles with 2+1 flavors of sea quark, generated by the MILC Collaboration. The ensembles span lattice spacings from 0.12 to 0.045 fm and have …

Update of $textbarV_b̧textbar$ from the $barBto Dtextasciicircum*ellbarnu$ form factor at zero recoil with three-flavor lattice QCD

We compute the zero-recoil form factor for the semileptonic decay $barBtextasciicircum0to Dtextasciicircum*+elltextasciicircum-barnu$ (and modes related by isospin and charge conjugation) using lattice QCD with three flavors of sea quarks. We use an …