Leptonic B- and D-meson decay constants with 2+1 flavors of asqtad fermions

Abstract

We present the status of our updated D- and B-meson decay-constant analysis, based on the MILC $N_f=2+1$ asqtad gauge ensembles. Heavy quarks are incorporated using the Wilson clover action with the Fermilab interpretation. This analysis includes ensembles at five lattice spacings from a $\approx$ 0.045 to 0.15 fm, and light sea-quark masses down to 1/20th of the strange-quark mass. Projected error budgets for ratios of decay constants, in particular between bottom- and charm-meson decay constants, are presented.

7 pages, 2 figures. Presented at Lattice 2014, the 32nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 23-28 June, 2014, Columbia University, New York, NY. Submitted to Proceedings of Science

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