The B -> D* l nu form factor at zero recoil from three-flavor lattice QCD: A model independent determination of |V_cb|

Details The B -> D* l nu form factor at zero recoil from three-flavor lattice QCD: A model independent determination of |V_cb| The B -> D* l nu form factor at zero recoil from three-flavor lattice QCD: A model independent determination of |V_cb|

2008-08-19

arxiv.org/abs/0808.2519v2

Phys.Rev.D79:014506,2009

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Lattice

48 pages, 9 figures. Sections VI and VII D clarified, minor typos corrected and references added. Version published in PRD

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.79.014506

We present the first lattice QCD calculation of the form factor for B-> D* l nu with three flavors of sea quarks. We use an improved staggered action for the light valence and sea quarks (the MILC configurations), and the Fermilab action for the heavy quarks. The form factor is computed at zero recoil using a new double ratio method that yields the form factor more directly than the previous Fermilab method. Other improvements over the previous calculation include the use of much lighter light quark masses, and the use of lattice (staggered) chiral perturbation theory in order to control the light quark discretization errors and chiral extrapolation. We obtain for the form factor, F_{B-> D*}(1)=0.921(13)(20), where the first error is statistical and the second is the sum of all systematic errors in quadrature. Applying a 0.7% electromagnetic correction and taking the latest PDG average for F_{B-> D*}(1)|V_cb| leads to |V_cb|=(38.7 +/- 0.9_exp +/- 1.0_theo) x 10^-3.

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