Lattice Study of Spectator Effects in b-hadron Decays

Joshua Lin, William Detmold, Stefan Meinel

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Abstract

The Heavy Quark Expansion (HQE) gives an expansion of inclusive decay rates of b-hadrons as a simultaneous series in αs and 1/mb, in terms of perturbatively defined coefficients and non-perturbative matrix elements. Spectator effects arise from the dimension-6 operators in the HQE in which along with the heavy quark, a light spectator quark from the hadron participates in the weak decay. In this work, we provide a lattice determination of the bare matrix elements that contribute to the spectator effects for the B+-meson, Bd-meson and the Λb-baryon. The computations were performed on two separate lattice spacings of the RBC-UKQCD (2+1)-flavor Domain Wall Fermion ensembles. Renormalization and continuum extrapolation of the matrix elements have not yet been computed, and are left to future work.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number417
JournalProceedings of Science
Volume430
StatePublished - Apr 6 2023
Event39th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, LATTICE 2022 - Bonn, Germany
Duration: Aug 8 2022Aug 13 2022

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