Published September 1, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Bottom-hadron mass splittings from static-quark action on 2+1-flavor lattices

  • 1. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606 (United States) and Department of Physics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005 India (India)
  • 3. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606 (United States)

Description

We calculate bottom-hadron mass splittings with respect to Bd and Λb using full QCD with 2+1 flavors of dynamical Kogut-Susskind sea quarks and domain-wall valence quarks along with a static heavy quark. Our lattices have spatial volume of (2.5 fm)3 with lattice spacing about 0.124 fm and a range of pion masses as low as 291 MeV. Our results are in agreement with experimental observations and other lattice calculations within our statistical and systematic errors. In particular, we find the mass of the Ωb to be consistent with the recent CDF measurement. We also predict the mass for the as yet unobserved Ξb' to be 5955(27) MeV.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
80
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 054027-054027.10
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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