Accurate decay-constant ratios fB*/fB and fBs*/fBs from Borel QCD sum rules
- Author(s)
- Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov, Silvano Simula
- Abstract
We present our analysis of the decay constants of the beauty vector mesons B∗ and B
s∗ within the framework of dispersive sum rules for the two-point correlator of vector currents in QCD. While the decay constants of the vector mesons f
B∗ and f
Bs∗ - similar to the decay constants of the pseudoscalar mesons f
B and f
Bs - individually have large uncertainties induced by theory parameters not known with a satisfactory precision, these uncertainties almost entirely cancel out in the ratios of vector over pseudoscalar decay constants. These ratios, thus, may be predicted with very high accuracy due to the good control over the systematic uncertainties of the decay constants gained upon application of our hadron-parameter extraction algorithm. Our final results read f
B∗/f
B = 0.944 ± 0.011
OPE ± 0.018
syst and f
Bs∗/f
Bs = 0.947 ± 0.023
OPE ± 0.020
syst. Thus, both f
B∗/f
B and f
Bs∗/f
Bs are less than unity at 2.5σ and 2σ level, respectively.
- Organisation(s)
- Particle Physics
- External organisation(s)
- Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Universität Wien, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Roma
- Journal
- Physical Review D
- Volume
- 91
- No. of pages
- 10
- ISSN
- 1550-7998
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.116009
- Publication date
- 06-2015
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103034 Particle physics
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/accurate-decayconstant-ratios-fbfb-and-fbsfbs-from-borel-qcd-sum-rules(c19fd942-3868-4cdc-94ef-59d08854ee7e).html