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Nicolas Garron

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arXiv2015

Pion couplings to the scalar B meson

We present two-flavor lattice QCD estimates of the hadronic couplings $g_{B^*_0 B π}$ and $g_{B_1^* B_0^* π}$ that parametrise the non leptonic decays $B^*_0 \to B π$ and $B^*_1 \to B_0^* π$. We use CLS two-flavour gauge ensembles. Our framework is the Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) in the static limit and solving a Generalized Eigenvalue Problem (GEVP) reveals crucial to disentangle the $B^*_0$($B^*_1$) state from the $B π$($B^*π$) state. This work brings us some experience on how to treat the possible contribution from multihadronic states to correlation functions calculated on the lattice, especially when $S$-wave states are involved.

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arXiv2015

Charm physics with physical light and strange quarks using domain wall fermions

We present a study of charm physics using RBC/UKQCD 2+1 flavour physical point domain wall fermion ensembles for the light quarks as well as for the valence charm quark. After a brief motivation of domain wall fermions as a suitable heavy quark discretisation we will show first results for masses and matrix elements.

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arXiv2014

NPR step-scaling across the charm threshold

Matching Non-Perturbative Renormalisation on the lattice and perturbative renormalisation would benefit from higher matching scales, which are needed for observables entering their permile era such as BK. In this work we lay down a strategy, within the Rome-Southampton framework, to push this scale higher across the charm threshold, and apply it to an exploration of the BK running from 3 GeV to 9 GeV. This is done on Nf = 2+1+1 ensembles generated by the RBC-UKQCD collaboration, and features a close study of the discretisation effects.

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arXiv2014

Extracting Vus from Lattice QCD simulations: Recent progress and prospects

I review the current status of the determination of Vus from a lattice perspective. The recent progress are very impressive: computation with 2 + 1 and 2 + 1 + 1 dynamical flavours, physical pion mass, several fine lattices, different discretisation of the QCD Lagrangian, etc. In this report, intended for non-lattice experts, I give an overview of the situation for the computation of fK /fπ and f+(0), from which Vus and Vud can be extracted. Besides the main features of the new computations, I also present some theoretical ideas developed in the recent years which allow for a cleaner determination of the relevant form factor f+ (0).

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arXiv2013

The Kaon Bag Parameter at Physical Mass

We present preliminary results for the calculation of the Kaon Bag parameter $B_K$ in $N_f=2+1$ lattice QCD, using Möbius Domain Wall Fermion ensembles generated by the RBC-UKQCD collaboration. This computation is done directly at physical meson masses, so that we do not have to rely on chiral perturbation theory or any other mass extrapolation. In parallel, the four-quark operator is renormalised through the Rome-Southampton technique. Finally, we compare our value with previous results and draw some conclusions about the remaining dominant contributions in our error budget.

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arXiv2013

The kaon semileptonic form factor with near physical domain wall quarks

We present a new calculation of the K->pi semileptonic form factor at zero momentum transfer in domain wall lattice QCD with Nf=2+1 dynamical quark flavours. By using partially twisted boundary conditions we simulate directly at the phenomenologically relevant point of zero momentum transfer. We perform a joint analysis for all available ensembles which include three different lattice spacings (a=0.09-0.14fm), large physical volumes (m_pi*L>3.9) and pion masses as low as 171 MeV. The comprehensive set of simulation points allows for a detailed study of systematic effects leading to the prediction f+(0)=0.9670(20)(+18/-46), where the first error is statistical and the second error systematic. The result allows us to extract the CKM-matrix element |Vus|=0.2237(+13/-8) and confirm first-row CKM-unitarity in the Standard Model at the sub per mille level.

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arXiv2012

Weak Matrix Elements of Beyond the Standard Model $Δs=2$ four-quark operators from nf=2+1 Domain-Wall fermions

We report on our computation of the hadronic matrix elements of the four-quark operators needed for the study of $K^0-{\bar K^0}$ mixing beyond the Standard Model (SM). We consider nf=2+1 Domain-Wall fermions on Iwasaki gauge action with lightest unitary pion of 290 MeV and a single lattice spacing a=0.086 fm. The renormalization is performed non-perturbatively through the RI-MOM scheme and our results are converted perturbatively to MSbar. We have estimated the various systematic errors. Our results confirm a previous quenched study, where large ratios of non-SM to SM matrix elements were obtained.

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arXiv2012

B-physics from non-perturbatively renormalized HQET in two-flavour lattice QCD

We report on the ALPHA Collaboration's lattice B-physics programme based on N_f=2 O(a) improved Wilson fermions and HQET, including all NLO effects in the inverse heavy quark mass, as well as non-perturbative renormalization and matching, to fix the parameters of the effective theory. Our simulations in large physical volume cover 3 lattice spacings a ~ (0.08-0.05) fm and pion masses down to 190 MeV to control continuum and chiral extrapolations. We present the status of results for the b-quark mass and the B_(s)-meson decay constants, f_B and f_{B_s}.

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arXiv2012

Parameters of Heavy Quark Effective Theory from Nf=2 lattice QCD

We report on a non-perturbative determination of the parameters of the lattice Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) Lagrangian and of the time component of the heavy-light axial-vector current with Nf=2 flavors of massless dynamical quarks. The effective theory is considered at the 1/mh order, and the heavy mass mh covers a range from slightly above the charm to beyond the beauty region. These HQET parameters are needed to compute, for example, the b-quark mass, the heavy-light spectrum and decay constants in the static approximation and to order 1/mh in HQET. The determination of the parameters is done non-perturbatively. The computation reported in this paper uses the plaquette gauge action and two different static actions for the heavy quark described by HQET. For the light-quark action we choose non-perturbatively O(a)-improved Wilson fermions.

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arXiv2011

M_b and f_B from non-perturbatively renormalized HQET with Nf=2 light quarks

We present an updated analysis of the non-perturbatively renormalized b-quark mass and B meson decay constant based on CLS lattices with two dynamical non-perturbatively improved Wilson quarks. This update incorporates additional light quark masses and lattice spacings in large physical volume to improve chiral extrapolations and to reach the continuum limit. We use Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) including 1/m_b terms with non-perturbative coefficients based on the matching of QCD and HQET developed by the ALPHA collaboration during the past years.

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arXiv2011

Light quark correlators in a mixed-action setup

We report our progress in simulating Neuberger valence fermions on N_f=2 Wilson O(a)-improved sea quarks. We compute correlators with valence quark masses both in the p- and in the epsilon-regime, and we match the results with the predictions of the Chiral Effective Theory in the mixed regime. This allows us to extract the Low Energy Couplings (LECs) of the N_f=2 theory and to test the validity of the approach.

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arXiv2011

Probing the chiral regime of Nf=2 QCD with mixed actions

We report on our first experiences with a mixed action setup with overlap valence quarks and non-perturbatively O(a) improved Wilson sea quarks. For the latter we employ CLS Nf=2 configurations with light sea quark masses at small lattice spacings. Exact chiral symmetry allows to consider very light valence quarks and explore the matching to (partially quenched) Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) in a mixed epsilon/p-regime. We compute the topological susceptibility and the low-lying spectrum of the massless Neuberger-Dirac operator for three values of the sea quark mass, and compare the sea quark mass dependence to NLO ChPT in the mixed regime. This provides two different determinations of the chiral condensate, as well as information about some NLO low-energy couplings. Our results allow to test the consistency of the mixed-regime approach to ChPT, as well as of the mixed action framework.

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arXiv2011

Lattice determination of fBd, fBs, and xi

In this talk I summarize the recent lattice determinations of the decay constants and of the bag parameters of the heavy-light and heavy-strange neutral mesons.

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arXiv2011

B-meson physics from non-perturbative lattice heavy quark effective theory

During the last years, the ALPHA collaboration has been developing and implementing a method based on Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) to compute B-mesons observables through lattice simulations. Thanks to a non-perturbative matching to QCD, the theory is renormalizable at any order of the heavy quark mass expansion. In order to extract precisely the relevant matrix elements and masses, we use all-to-all propagators and solve an generalized eigenvalue problem (GEVP). We have shown in the quenched approximation that quantities like the b-quark mass mb, the heavy-light decay constant(s) or the B-meson spectrum can be computed precisely beyond the static approximation (including the first corrections in 1/\mb). More recently, we have started to include the sea quark effects, by working with Nf=2 light flavors of dynamical fermions[1]. The computation of the matching parameters is almost finished, but concerning the extraction of the hadronic quantities for which we use some CLS ensembles[2], only one lattice spacing has been analyzed so far. In this proceeding we report on the status of this project and present some preliminary results.

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arXiv2011

Nonperturbative HQET at Order $1/m$

We summarize first results for masses and decay constants of bottom-strange (pseudo-scalar and vector) mesons from nonperturbatively renormalized heavy-quark effective theory (HQET), using lattice-QCD simulations in the quenched approximation.

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arXiv2011

Non-perturbative renormalization of kaon four-quark operators with nf=2+1 Domain Wall fermions

We present our strategy and some preliminary results for the renormalization of four-quark operators relevant for kaon physics. We follow the non-perturbative Rome-Southampton method, with both exceptional and non-exceptional kinematics. We also implement momentum sources and twisted boundary conditions. We use an (almost) unitary setup: Domain-Wall valence on nf=2+1 Domain-Wall sea and Iwasaki gauge action, at two values of the lattice spacing corresponding to approximately 0.086 fm and 0.114 fm . The chiral properties of these fermions play a crucial role in this compuation and are studied in detail in this work.

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arXiv2010

B meson spectrum and decay constant from Nf=2 simulations

We report on the status of an ALPHA Collaboration project to extract quantities for B physics phenomenology from Nf=2 lattice simulations. The framework is Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) expanded up to the first order of the inverse b-quark mass. The couplings of the effective theory are determined by imposing matching conditions of observables computed in HQET with their counterpart computed in QCD. That program, based on Nf=2 simulations in a small physical volume with SF boundary conditions, is now almost finished. On the other side the analysis of configurations selected from the CLS ensembles, in order to measure HQET hadronic matrix elements, has just started recently so that only results obtained at a single lattice spacing, a=0.07 fm, will be discussed. We give our first results for the b-quark mass and for the B meson decay constant.

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arXiv2010

Exploring the chiral regime of $N_f=2$ QCD with mixed actions

We report on our simulations with Neuberger valence fermions on CLS $N_f=2$ configurations with non-perturbatively $O(a)$-improved Wilson sea quarks. We consider the matching of QCD to ChPT in the so called mixed-regime in which the sea quarks are in the $p$-regime while the valence quarks are in the $ε$-regime. From this matching, we can get information on $Σ$, $L_6$ and the combination $L_8+2L_6+2L_7$.

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