# UTCCP-P-76 Heavy-light spectrum and decay constant from NRQCD with two flavors of dynamical quarkstalk presented by A. Ali Khan

## 1 Introduction

The decay constant $`f_B`$ is being studied extensively on the lattice because of its importance for the determination of CKM matrix elements. The spectrum of excited $`B`$ mesons and $`b`$ baryons is being measured in present experiments, whereas there exist only few lattice results on this subject.

In this article we report on our study of $`B`$ mesons in two-flavor full QCD employing the NRQCD action for heavy quark and a tadpole-improved clover action for light quark. The dynamical configurations have been generated using the same light quark action and an RG-improved gauge action with a plaquette and a rectangular term. Details on our full QCD configurations can be found in Refs. . A parallel study of $`B`$ mesons using the clover action for heavy quark is presented in Ref. .

## 2 Simulation Details

We present results for two sets of dynamical lattices corresponding to the heaviest and the lightest sea quark in our configuration set at $`\beta =1.95`$. The results are compared to those from quenched lattices generated with the same RG-improved gauge action at $`\beta =2.187`$, the lattice spacing from the string tension matched to the dynamical lattice with $`\kappa _{sea}=0.1375`$. Some details on these runs are given in Table 1.

We take 5 $`\kappa `$ values for the light valence quark corresponding to $`m_{\mathrm{PS}}/m_\mathrm{V}0.80.5`$. The strange quark mass $`m_s`$ is fixed using the $`K`$ and the $`\varphi `$ meson. Our results for the $`B_s`$ meson are obtained with $`m_s`$ from the $`K`$, and the $`\varphi `$ is used to estimate the systematic error.

For the heavy quarks, we use NRQCD at $`O(1/M)`$ with a symmetric evolution equation as defined in . We employ 5 bare heavy quark masses, covering a range of roughly $`2.54.5`$ GeV.

The heavy-light meson mass $`M`$ is determined from the difference of the meson energy at finite momentum and at rest, assuming the dispersion relation, $`E(\stackrel{}{p})E(0)=\sqrt{\stackrel{}{p}^2+M^2}M`$. As a consistency check, we use both the $`B_d`$ and the $`B_s`$ meson to determine the b quark mass.

In our calculation of decay constants, the heavy-light current is corrected through $`O(\alpha /M)`$. The mixing coefficients between the lattice operators  contributing at this order to the time component of the axial vector current $`J_4`$, and the matching factor to the continuum current has been calculated  in one-loop perturbation theory,

$`J_4`$ $`=`$ $`(1+\alpha \rho _0)J_{4,lat}^{(0)}+(1+\alpha \rho _1)J_{4,lat}^{(1)}`$ (1)   
$`+`$ $`\alpha \rho _2J_{4,lat}^{(2)}.`$   
For the RG-improved gluon action, $`\alpha _V`$ has not been calculated, and we use a tadpole-improved one-loop expression for the $`\overline{MS}`$ coupling, $`\alpha _{\overline{MS}}^{TI}(1/a)`$.

## 3 Decay Constants

Our preliminary results for $`f_B`$, $`f_{B_s}`$ and $`f_{B_s}/f_B`$ are given in Table 2, along with the statistical error and, where applicable, the uncertainty in the determination of $`m_s`$. Additional systematic errors are estimated as follows: $`O(\alpha ^2)`$ corrections, taken to be $`\alpha ^2\times O(1)`$, are 5%. A previous NRQCD calculation using the plaquette gluon action at $`a^11`$ GeV finds the tree level $`O(1/M^2)`$ corrections to be $`2\%`$ ; we estimate our error from the truncation of the $`1/M`$ expansion to be $`4\%`$. The leading discretization effects from the light quarks and gluons of $`O(\alpha a\mathrm{\Lambda }_{QCD})`$ and $`O(a^2\mathrm{\Lambda }_{QCD}^2)`$ are 5%. Added in quadrature, these estimates give $`7\%`$.

Our two-flavor results for $`f_B`$ and $`f_{B_s}`$ given in Table 2 show a $`10\%`$ increase compared to the quenched values (see also Fig. 1). We do not resolve any sea quark mass dependence. The dependence on the value of $`\alpha _s`$ is weaker than for the plaquette gauge action, and the difference between renormalized and bare decay constants is only about $`5\%`$.

In Fig. 1 we show the one-loop corrections to the current $`J_4`$ as a function of the heavy-light meson mass. In the $`B`$ region, $`1/M0.2`$, we find the correction to $`J_{4,lat}^{(1)}`$ to be very small and the two other terms to contribute about the same amount. The $`J_{4,lat}^{(2)}`$ contribution also contains a discretization correction to the current first pointed out in . We note that this discretization correction is considerably smaller for the RG gauge action than for the plaquette gauge action .

For $`f_{B_s}/f_B`$, we cannot resolve a difference between the three lattices.

In a parallel study of B mesons using clover heavy quarks , we have obtained $`f_B`$ and $`f_{B_s}`$ taking the chiral limit for sea quark at $`\beta =1.8,1.95`$ and 2.1. The results from that study at $`\beta =1.95`$ agree within the estimated errors with the present results from NRQCD.

## 4 Spectrum

In Fig. 2, we give our results for several $`B`$ splittings from the lattices with $`n_f=0`$ and $`n_f=2,\kappa _{sea}=0.1375`$. The top part of the figure shows the $`B^{}B`$ splitting. At present, we cannot resolve any unquenching effects. For quarkonia, on the same lattices, the hyperfine splitting is found to increase from the quenched value only by a few MeV . We find the $`B^{}B`$ splitting to be $`30\%`$ smaller than the experimental value. Possible sources of systematic error are the finiteness of the sea quark mass, the $`O(\alpha )`$ correction to the coefficient of the $`\sigma B`$ operator, and higher order relativistic corrections.

In the middle part of Figure 2, we show results for the $`B_2^{}B`$ splitting, and in the lower part, the spin-averaged $`\mathrm{\Lambda }_b\overline{B}`$ splitting. We do not find significant unquenching effects. However, for definite conclusions, we need to study several sea quark masses and lattice spacings, which is in progress.

This work is supported in part by the Grants-in-Aid of Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (Nos. 09304029, 10640246, 10640248, 10740107, 11640250, 11640294, 11740162). SE and KN are JSPS Research Fellows. AAK and TM are supported by the Research for the Future Program of JSPS.