1202.4914 (Heechang Na et al.)

The B and B_s Meson Decay Constants from Lattice QCD    [PDF]

Heechang Na, Chris J. Monahan, Christine T. H. Davies, Ron Horgan, G. Peter Lepage, Junko Shigemitsu

We present a new determination of the B and B_s meson decay constants using
NRQCD b-quarks, HISQ light and strange valence quarks and the MILC
collaboration N_f=2+1 lattices. The new calculations improve on HPQCD's earlier
work with NRQCD b-quarks by replacing AsqTad with HISQ valence quarks, by
including a more chiral MILC fine ensemble in the analysis, and by employing
better tuned quark masses and overall scale. We find f_B = 0.191(9)GeV, f_{B_s}
= 0.227(10)GeV and f_{B_s}/f_B = 1.188(18). Combining the new value for
f_{B_s}/f_B with a recent very precise determination of the B_s meson decay
constant based on HISQ b-quarks, f_{B_s} = 0.225(4)GeV, leads to f_B =
0.189(4)GeV. With errors of just 2.1% this represents the most precise f_B
available today.

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