D semileptonic form factors and |Vcs(d)| from 2+1 flavor lattice QCD

  • Jon A. Bailey
  • , A. Bazavov
  • , A. X. El-Khadra
  • , Steven Gottlieb
  • , R. D. Jain
  • , A. S. Kronfeld
  • , R. S. Van de Water
  • , R. Zhou

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Abstract

The measured partial widths of the semileptonic decays D → K`ν and D → π`ν can be combined with the form factors calculated on the lattice to extract the CKM matrix elements |Vcs| and |Vcd|. The lattice calculations can be checked by comparing the form factor shapes from the lattice and experiment. We have generated a sizable data set by using heavy clover quarks with the Fermilab interpretation for charm and asqtad staggered light quarks on 2+1 flavor MILC ensembles with lattice spacings of approximately 0.12, 0.09, 0.06, and 0.045 fm. Preliminary fits to staggered chiral perturbation theory suggest that we can reduce the uncertainties in the form factors at q2 = 0 to below 5%.

Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalProceedings of Science
Volume139
StatePublished - 2011
Event29th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Lattice 2011 - Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe, United States
Duration: Jul 10 2011Jul 16 2011

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General

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