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B_s->D_s/B->D Semileptonic Form-Factor Ratios and Their Application to BR(B^0_s->μ + μ −)
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B_s->D_s/B->D Semileptonic Form-Factor Ratios and Their Application to BR(B^0_s->μ + μ −)

Jon A Bailey, A Bazavov, C Bernard, C. M Bouchard, C DeTar, Daping Du, A. X El-Khadra, J Foley, E. D Freeland, E Gamiz, …
Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, Vol.85(11), 114502
02/28/2012
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.114502
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.114502View
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Abstract

We calculate form-factor ratios between the semileptonic decays ¯¯¯B0→D+ℓ−¯ν and ¯¯¯B0s→D+sℓ−¯ν with lattice QCD. These ratios are a key theoretical input in a new strategy to determine the fragmentation fractions of neutral B decays, which are needed for measurements of BR(B0s→μ+μ−). We use the MILC ensembles of gauge configurations with 2+1 flavors of sea-quarks at two s of approximately 0.12 fm and 0.09 fm. We use the model-independent z parametrization to extrapolate our simulation results at small recoil toward maximum recoil. Our results for the form-factor ratios are f(s)0(M2π)/f(d)0(M2K)=1.046(44)stat(15)syst and f(s)0(M2π)/f(d)0(M2π)=1.054(47)stat(17)syst. In contrast to a QCD sum-rule calculation, no significant departure from U-spin (d↔s) symmetry is observed.

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