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Shoji Hashimoto

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$B_s \to K\ellν$ form factors from lattice QCD with domain-wall heavy quarks

We report on our on-going study of the $B_s \to K\ellν$ decay in $N_f=2+1$ lattice QCD. We employ fully relativistic setup in which the Möbius domain-wall action is used for all quark flavors. The lattice cutoff is $a^{-1} \sim 2.5$ GeV, where we take bottom quark masses up to $m_Q\!<\!0.7a^{-1}$ in order to control discretization errors. We present preliminary results for the relevant form factors extracted from correlator ratios by inspecting their ground state saturation.

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Next challenges in semi-leptonic B decays

Lattice calculation of $B\to D^{(*)}\ell\barν$ decay form factors is now available from multiple lattice collaborations for both zero-recoil limit and non-zero recoil kinematics. Yet, there are a number of challenges we face to better control the systematic errors and to extend the application of lattice calculations to related quantities. The subjects are chosen from my own perspective and not meant to be conprehensive.

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Towards understanding of the inclusive vs exclusive puzzle in the $|V_{cb}|$ determinations

Lattice calculation may play an important role to understand the cause of the long-standing puzzle among the determination of $|V_{cb}|$. The key element is the computation of the inclusive decay rate, for which the formalism is under development. The method has its own problem: the approximation of the phase-space factor and finite volume effect. I discuss the current status of such study and future prospects.

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Updates on inclusive charmed and bottomed meson decays from the lattice

With the development of lattice QCD in recent years, a determination of decay rates for inclusive semileptonic decays from lattice correlators now seems viable. We report on the calculation of the inclusive semileptonic decay of the $D_s$ meson on the lattice. We simulate the $D_s \rightarrow X_s\ellν_\ell$ process with Möbius domain-wall charm and strange quarks, whose masses were approximately tuned to the physical values. We cover the whole kinematical region. We present a general overview on how the inclusive decays are treated on the lattice and discuss ongoing challenges, such as the estimation of systematic errors and future prospects of the project.

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Axial U(1) symmetry near the pseudocritical temperature in $N_f=2+1$ lattice QCD with chiral fermions

We study the $U(1)_A$ anomaly at high temperatures of $N_f=2+1$ lattice QCD with chiral fermions. Gauge ensembles are generated with Möbius domain-wall (MDW) fermions, and the measurements are reweighted to those with overlap fermions. We report on the results for the Dirac spectra, the $U(1)_A$ susceptibility, and the topological susceptibility in the temperature range of $T=136$, $153$, $175$, and $204$ MeV, where the up and down quark masses are set to be near the physical point as well as at lighter or heavier masses.

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Study of Chiral Symmetry and $U(1)_A$ using Spatial Correlators for $N_f=2+1$ QCD at finite temperature with Domain Wall Fermions

Based on simulations of 2+1 flavor lattice QCD with Möbius domain wall fermions at high temperatures, we compute a series of spatial correlation functions to study the screening masses in mesonic states. We compare these masses with the symmetry relations for various quark masses and lattice sizes at temperatures above the critical point. Using these spatial correlation functions we examine the $SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R$ symmetry as well as the anomalously broken axial $U(1)_A$ symmetry. Additionally we explore a possible and emergent chiral-spin symmetry $SU(2)_{CS}$.

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Exploring the QCD phase diagram with three flavors of Möbius domain wall fermions

We present an update on the study of the QCD phase transition with 3 flavors of Möbius domain wall fermions at zero baryon density. We performed simulations on lattices of size $36^3\times12\times16$ and $24^3\times12\times32$ with a variety of quark masses at a fixed lattice spacing $a=0.1361(20)$ fm, which correspond to a temperature 121(2) MeV. By analyzing the chiral condensate, chiral susceptibilitities and Binder cumulant on $36^3\times12\times16$ lattices together with the result obtained from our previous study on $24^3\times12\times16$ lattices, we identified a crossover occurring at quark mass around $m_q^{\mathrm{\overline {MS}}}(2\, \mathrm{GeV}) \sim 3-4$ MeV for this temperature. Besides, we show the effects of residual chiral symmetry breaking on chiral condensate and chiral susceptibilities between $L_s=16$ and 32.

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On the study of inclusive semileptonic decays of $B_s$-meson from lattice QCD

In this contribution we describe a recent study focused on the lattice calculation of inclusive decay rates of heavy mesons. We show how the inclusive calculation can be achieved starting from four-point lattice correlation functions normalised appropriately. The correlators used in this project come from gauge ensembles provided by the JLQCD and ETM collaborations. An essential point of this method is the extraction of spectral densities from lattice correlators which is obtained using two of the most recent approaches in the literature. Our results are in remarkable agreement with analytical predictions from the operator-product expansion. This study represents the first step towards a full lattice QCD study of heavy mesons inclusive semileptonic decays.

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Chebyshev and Backus-Gilbert reconstruction for inclusive semileptonic $B_{(s)}$-meson decays from Lattice QCD

We present a study on the nonperturbative calculation of observables for inclusive semileptonic decays of $B_{(s)}$ mesons using lattice QCD. We focus on the comparison of two different methods to analyse the lattice data of Euclidean correlation functions, specifically Chebyshev and Backus-Gilbert approaches. This type of computation may eventually provide new insight into the long-standing tension between the inclusive and exclusive determinations of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements $|V_{cb}|$ and $|V_{ub}|$. We report the results from a pilot lattice computation for the decay $B_s \rightarrow X_c \, lν_l$, where the valence quark masses are approximately tuned to their physical values using the relativistic-heavy quark action for the $b$ quark and the domain-wall formalism for the other valence quarks. We address the computation of the total decay rate as well as leptonic and hadronic moments, discussing similarities and differences between the two analysis techniques.

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Studies on finite-volume effects in the inclusive semileptonic decays of charmed mesons

We report on the calculation of the inclusive semileptonic decay of the $D_s$ meson on the lattice. We simulate the $D_s \rightarrow X_s\ellν_\ell$ process with Möbius domain-wall charm and strange quarks, whose masses were approximately tuned to the physical values. We cover the whole kinematical region. The focus of this work is on the systematic error due to finite-volume effects. We construct a model of two-body final states to describe the data on a finite volume lattice of $L \simeq 0.055 \, \text{fm}$ to investigate the extrapolation to the infinite-volume limit.

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Approaches to inclusive semileptonic $B_{(s)}$-meson decays from Lattice QCD

We address the nonperturbative calculation of the inclusive decay rate of semileptonic $B_{(s)}$-meson decays from lattice QCD. Precise Standard-Model predictions are key ingredients in searches for new physics, and this type of computation may eventually provide new insight into the long-standing tension between the inclusive and exclusive determinations of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements $|V_{cb}|$ and $|V_{ub}|$. We present results from a pilot lattice computation for $B_s \rightarrow X_c\, l ν_l$, where the initial $b$ quark described by the relativistic-heavy-quark (RHQ) formalism on the lattice and the other valence quarks discretised with domain-wall fermions are simulated approximately at their physical quark masses. We compare two different methods for computing the decay rate from lattice data of Euclidean $n$-point functions, namely Chebyshev and Backus-Gilbert approaches. We further study how much the ground-state meson dominates the inclusive decay rate and indicate our strategy towards a computation with a more comprehensive systematic error budget.

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Thermodynamics with Möbius domain wall fermions near physical point II

We report on our finite temperature 2+1 flavor lattice QCD simulation to study the thermodynamic properties of QCD near the (pseudo) critical point employing $N_T=12$ and $16$. The simulation points are chosen along the lines of constant physics. The quark mass for Möbius domain-wall fermion are tuned by taking into account the residual mass either by fine-tuning the input quark masses or by post-process using reweighting. In this talk, we focus on simulation details and present some preliminary results.

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Form factors of $B\toπ\ellν$ and a determination of $|V_{ub}|$ with Möbius domain-wall-fermions

Using a fully relativistic lattice fermion action, we compute the form factors of the semileptonic decay $B\toπ\ellν$, which is required for the determination of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $|V_{ub}|$. We employ the Möbius domain-wall fermion formalism for the generation of lattice ensembles with 2+1 sea quark flavours as well as for the valence heavy and light quarks. We compute the form factors at various values of the lattice spacing and multiple light and heavy quark masses, and extrapolate the results to the physical point. We combine our lattice results with the available experimental data to obtain $|V_{ub}| = (3.93\pm 0.41)\times 10^{-3}$.

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Finite temperature QCD phase transition with 3 flavors of Möbius domain wall fermions

We investigate the finite temperature QCD phase transition with three degenerate quark flavors using Möbius domain wall fermions. To explore the order of phase transition on the lower left corner of Columbia plot and if possible, to locate the critical endpoint we performed simulations at temperatures around 181 and 121 MeV with lattice spacing $a=0.1361(20)$ fm corresponding to temporal lattice extent $N_τ=8,12$ with varying quark mass for two different volumes with aspect ratios $N_σ/N_τ$ ranging from 2 to 3. By analyzing the volume and mass dependence of the chiral condensate, disconnected chiral susceptibility and Binder cumulant we find that there is a crossover at $m_q^{\mathrm{\overline {MS}}}(2\, \mathrm{GeV}) \sim 44\, \mathrm{MeV}$ for $\mathrm{T_{pc}}\sim$ 181 MeV, At temperature 121 MeV, the binder cumulant suggests a crossover at $m_q^{\mathrm{\overline {MS}}}(2\, \mathrm{GeV}) \sim 3.7\, \mathrm{MeV}$, although a study of volume dependence would be important to confirm this.

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Inclusive semi-leptonic decays of charmed mesons with Möbius domain wall fermions

We perform a non-perturbative lattice calculation of the decay rates for inclusive semi-leptonic decays of charmed mesons. In view of the long-standing tension in the determination of the CKM matrix elements $|V_{ub}|$ and $|V_{cb}|$ from exclusive and inclusive processes, recently, the use of lattice QCD has been extended towards the description of inclusive decays. Since the determination of hadronic input parameters from QCD based methods require independent tests, we focus on the charm sector, since it not only offers experimental data, but also well determined CKM parameters. We carry out a pilot lattice simulation for the $D_s \rightarrow X_s \ellν$ and explore the improvement of existing techniques. Our simulation employs Möbius domain-wall charm and strange quarks whose masses are tuned to be approximately physical and we cover the whole kinematical region. We report on our progress in analyzing different sources of systematic effects, such as the extrapolation of the kernel function chosen for the Chebsyhev approximation as well as the influence on the analysis in the region close to the kinematical limit.

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Inclusive semi-leptonic $B_{(s)}$ mesons decay at the physical $b$ quark mass

We address the non-perturbative calculation of the decay rate of inclusive semi-leptonic $B_{(s)}$ mesons decays from lattice QCD. Precise theoretical Standard Model predictions are key ingredients in searches for new physics. This type of computation may eventually provide new insight into the long-standing tension between the inclusive and exclusive determinations of the CKM matrix elements $|V_{cb}|$ and $|V_{ub}|$. We perform a pilot lattice computation for $B_s \rightarrow X_c \, l ν_l$ and improve on existing techniques. The valence-quark masses in our simulations are approximately physical for the domain-wall strange and charm quarks as well as for the bottom quark, for which we use a relativistic heavy quark effective action. We report on our progress and discuss future plans towards a first study with fully controlled systematic effects.

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Inclusive semileptonic $B$-decays from lattice QCD

We present the lattice QCD calculation of inclusive semileptonic $B_s$-meson decays. We follow a recently proposed method, which is based on the extraction of smeared spectral densities from Euclidean correlation functions and on the numerical reconstruction of the integration kernel relevant for the inclusive decay rate calculation. We compute four-point Euclidean correlation functions using JLQCD and ETM gauge ensembles with unphysically light $b$-quark masses, and apply two different methods for the integration kernel reconstruction. Finally, we show that the lattice results obtained in this work are in good agreement with the analytic predictions of the operator-product-expansion. This opens the path for a future full lattice QCD calculation to be used as theoretical input for the determination of the magnitude of the CKM element $V_{cb}$.

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Towards the computation of inclusive decay rates using lattice QCD

We present a non-perturbative computation of inclusive rates of semileptonic decays of heavy mesons from lattice QCD simulations. The calculation is based on the extraction of smeared spectral functions obtained from four-point Euclidean correlation functions computed on configuration ensembles of the JLQCD and ETM collaborations. We compare our results for the inclusive decay rates with analytical predictions from the operator-product expansion, finding a good agreement for the calculation of the inclusive decay rate. This opens the path to the theoretical determination of the magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $V_{cb}$ to a level of precision competitive with the present experimental uncertainty.

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