R. S. Van de Water

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20042025

most citedFLAG Review 2021

614 citations · 5.6k across the 109 of their papers we have counts for

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112 papers

hep-ph2025★ 134 cited

The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon in the Standard Model: an update

R. Aliberti, T. Aoyama, E. Balzani +232

We present the current Standard Model (SM) prediction for the muon anomalous magnetic moment, $a_{μ}$ , updating the first White Paper (WP20) [1]. The pure QED and electroweak contrib…

hep-lat2024★ 1 cited

Hadronic vacuum polarization for the muon $g - 2$ from lattice QCD: Long-distance and full light-quark connected contribution

Alexei Bazavov, Claude W. Bernard, David A. Clarke +22

We present results for the dominant light-quark connected contribution to the long-distance window (LD) of the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution (HVP) to the muon $g - 2$ fro…

hep-lat2024

Hadronic vacuum polarization for the muon $g - 2$ from lattice QCD: Complete short and intermediate windows

Alexei Bazavov, David A. Clarke, Christine Davies +21

We present complete results for the hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment $a_{μ}$ in the short- and intermediate-distance window regio…

hep-lat2024

The two-pion contribution to the hadronic vacuum polarization with staggered quarks

Shaun Lahert, Carleton DeTar, Aida X. El-Khadra +3

We present results from the first lattice QCD calculation of the two-pion contributions to the light-quark connected vector-current correlation function obtained from staggered-qua…

hep-ph2024

Model-independent description of $B \to D π ℓ ν$ decays

Erik J. Gustafson, Florian Herren, Ruth S. Van de Water +2

In this contribution we present a novel, model-independent description of semileptonic $B \to D π ℓ ν$ decays. In addition, we discuss recent developments in the understan…

hep-lat2024

Improved Fermion Hamiltonians for Quantum Simulation

Erik Gustafson, Ruth Van de Water

We developed a Hamiltonian inspired by ASQTAD and highly improved staggered quark (HISQ) actions and show how these Hamiltonians can be used for quantum simulations. Gate costs for…

hep-ph2023★ 3 cited

A model independent description of $B \to D π ℓ ν$ decays

Erik J. Gustafson, Florian Herren, Ruth S. Van de Water +2

We introduce a new parameterization of $B \to D π ℓ ν$ form factors using a partial-wave expansion and derive bounds on the series coefficients using analyticity and unita…

hep-lat2023★ 5 cited

Simulating $Z_{2}$ lattice gauge theory on a quantum computer

Clement Charles, Erik J. Gustafson, Elizabeth Hardt +6

The utility of quantum computers for simulating lattice gauge theories is currently limited by the noisiness of the physical hardware. Various quantum error mitigation strategies e…

hep-lat2023★ 70 cited

Light-quark connected intermediate-window contributions to the muon $g - 2$ hadronic vacuum polarization from lattice QCD

Alexei Bazavov, Christine Davies, Carleton DeTar +18

We present a lattice-QCD calculation of the light-quark connected contribution to window observables associated with the leading-order hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to…

hep-lat2022★ 28 cited

D-meson semileptonic decays to pseudoscalars from four-flavor lattice QCD

Alexei Bazavov, Carleton DeTar, Aida X. El-Khadra +16

We present lattice-QCD calculations of the hadronic form factors for the semileptonic decays $D \to π ℓ ν$ , $D \to K ℓ ν$ , and $D_{s} \to K ℓ ν$ . Our calculation uses the highly impro…

hep-lat2022★ 7 cited

A lattice QCD perspective on weak decays of b and c quarks Snowmass 2022 White Paper

Peter A. Boyle, Bipasha Chakraborty, Christine T. H. Davies +32

Lattice quantum chromodynamics has proven to be an indispensable method to determine nonperturbative strong contributions to weak decay processes. In this white paper for the Snowm…

hep-lat2021

Hadronic vacuum polarization of the muon on 2+1+1-flavor HISQ ensembles: an update

Shaun Lahert, Carleton DeTar, Aida El-Khadra +6

We give an update on the status of the Fermilab Lattice-HPQCD-MILC calculation of the contribution to the muon's anomolous magnetic moment from the light-quark, connected hadronic…

hep-lat2021★ 614 cited

FLAG Review 2021

Y. Aoki, T. Blum, G. Colangelo +34

We review lattice results related to pion, kaon, $D$ -meson, $B$ -meson, and nucleon physics with the aim of making them easily accessible to the nuclear and particle physics communi…

hep-lat2021★ 81 cited

Semileptonic form factors for $B \to D^{*} ℓ ν$ at nonzero recoil from 2 + 1-flavor lattice QCD

A. Bazavov, C. E. DeTar, Daping Du +13

We present the first unquenched lattice-QCD calculation of the form factors for the decay $B \to D^{*} ℓ ν$ at nonzero recoil. Our analysis includes 15 MILC ensembles with…

hep-lat2019★ 27 cited

Opportunities for lattice QCD in quark and lepton flavor physics

Christoph Lehner, Stefan Meinel, Tom Blum +8

This document is one of a series of whitepapers from the USQCD collaboration. Here, we discuss opportunities for lattice QCD in quark and lepton flavor physics. New data generated…

hep-lat2019

$D$ meson Semileptonic Decay Form Factors at $q^{2} = 0$

Ruizi Li, A. Bazavov, C. W. Bernard +17

We discuss preliminary results for the vector form factors $f_{+}^{{π, K}}$ at zero-momentum transfer for the decays $D \to π ℓ ν$ and $D \to K ℓ ν$ using MILC's $N_{f} = 2 + 1 + 1$ HISQ…

hep-lat2017★ 299 cited

$B$ - and $D$ -meson leptonic decay constants from four-flavor lattice QCD

A. Bazavov, C. Bernard, N. Brown +14

We calculate the leptonic decay constants of heavy-light pseudoscalar mesons with charm and bottom quarks in lattice quantum chromodynamics on four-flavor QCD gauge-field configura…

hep-lat2017★ 5 cited

$B_{s} \to K ℓ ν$ form factors with 2+1 flavors

Fermilab Lattice, MILC Collaborations, : +23

Using the MILC 2+1 flavor asqtad quark action ensembles, we are calculating the form factors $f_{0}$ and $f_{+}$ for the semileptonic $B_{s} \to K ℓ ν$ decay. A total of six en…

hep-lat2017★ 8 cited

Semileptonic $B$ -meson decays to light pseudoscalar mesons on the HISQ ensembles

Zechariah Gelzer, C. Bernard, C. DeTar +10

We report the status of an ongoing lattice-QCD calculation of form factors for exclusive semileptonic decays of $B$ mesons with both charged currents ( $B \to π ℓ ν$ , $B_{s} \to K ℓ ν$ …

hep-lat2017★ 112 cited

Strong-isospin-breaking correction to the muon anomalous magnetic moment from lattice QCD at the physical point

Bipasha Chakraborty, C. T. H. Davies, C. DeTar +17

All lattice-QCD calculations of the hadronic-vacuum-polarization contribution to the muon's anomalous magnetic moment to-date have been performed with degenerate up- and down-quark…

hep-lat2017★ 32 cited

Short-distance matrix elements for $D^{0}$ -meson mixing for $N_{f} = 2 + 1$ lattice QCD

A. Bazavov, C. Bernard, C. M. Bouchard +17

We calculate in three-flavor lattice QCD the short-distance hadronic matrix elements of all five $Δ C = 2$ four-fermion operators that contribute to neutral $D$ -meson mixing both in a…

hep-lat2017

D-Meson Mixing in 2+1-Flavor Lattice QCD

Chia Cheng Chang, C. M. Bouchard, A. X. El-Khadra +7

We present results for neutral D-meson mixing in 2+1-flavor lattice QCD. We compute the matrix elements for all five operators that contribute to D mixing at short distances, inclu…

hep-lat2016★ 2 cited

Decay constants $f_{B}$ and $f_{B_{s}}$ and quark masses $m_{b}$ and $m_{c}$ from HISQ simulations

J. Komijani, A. Bazavov, C. Bernard +20

We present a progress report on our calculation of the decay constants $f_{B}$ and $f_{B_{s}}$ from lattice-QCD simulations with highly-improved staggered quarks. Simulations are carri…

hep-lat2016★ 1 cited

Kaon semileptonic decays with $N_{f} = 2 + 1 + 1$ HISQ fermions and physical light-quark masses

E. Gamiz, A. Bazavov, C. Bernard +17

We discuss the reduction of errors in the calculation of the form factor $f_{+}^{K π} (0)$ with HISQ fermions on the $N_{f} = 2 + 1 + 1$ MILC configurations from increased statistics on some…

The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon in the Standard Model: an update

Hadronic vacuum polarization for the muon g−2 from lattice QCD: Long-distance and full light-quark connected contribution

Hadronic vacuum polarization for the muon g−2 from lattice QCD: Complete short and intermediate windows

The two-pion contribution to the hadronic vacuum polarization with staggered quarks

Model-independent description of B→Dπℓν decays

Improved Fermion Hamiltonians for Quantum Simulation

A model independent description of B→Dπℓν decays

Simulating Z2​ lattice gauge theory on a quantum computer

Light-quark connected intermediate-window contributions to the muon g−2 hadronic vacuum polarization from lattice QCD

D-meson semileptonic decays to pseudoscalars from four-flavor lattice QCD

A lattice QCD perspective on weak decays of b and c quarks Snowmass 2022 White Paper

Hadronic vacuum polarization of the muon on 2+1+1-flavor HISQ ensembles: an update

FLAG Review 2021

Semileptonic form factors for B→D∗ℓν at nonzero recoil from 2 + 1-flavor lattice QCD

Opportunities for lattice QCD in quark and lepton flavor physics

D meson Semileptonic Decay Form Factors at q2=0

B- and D-meson leptonic decay constants from four-flavor lattice QCD

Bs​→Kℓν form factors with 2+1 flavors

Semileptonic B-meson decays to light pseudoscalar mesons on the HISQ ensembles

Strong-isospin-breaking correction to the muon anomalous magnetic moment from lattice QCD at the physical point

Short-distance matrix elements for D0-meson mixing for Nf​=2+1 lattice QCD

D-Meson Mixing in 2+1-Flavor Lattice QCD

Decay constants fB​ and fBs​​ and quark masses mb​ and mc​ from HISQ simulations

Kaon semileptonic decays with Nf​=2+1+1 HISQ fermions and physical light-quark masses

Hadronic vacuum polarization for the muon $g - 2$ from lattice QCD: Long-distance and full light-quark connected contribution

Hadronic vacuum polarization for the muon $g - 2$ from lattice QCD: Complete short and intermediate windows

Model-independent description of $B \to D π ℓ ν$ decays

A model independent description of $B \to D π ℓ ν$ decays

Simulating $Z_{2}$ lattice gauge theory on a quantum computer

Light-quark connected intermediate-window contributions to the muon $g - 2$ hadronic vacuum polarization from lattice QCD

Semileptonic form factors for $B \to D^{*} ℓ ν$ at nonzero recoil from 2 + 1-flavor lattice QCD

$D$ meson Semileptonic Decay Form Factors at $q^{2} = 0$

$B$ - and $D$ -meson leptonic decay constants from four-flavor lattice QCD

$B_{s} \to K ℓ ν$ form factors with 2+1 flavors

Semileptonic $B$ -meson decays to light pseudoscalar mesons on the HISQ ensembles

Short-distance matrix elements for $D^{0}$ -meson mixing for $N_{f} = 2 + 1$ lattice QCD

Decay constants $f_{B}$ and $f_{B_{s}}$ and quark masses $m_{b}$ and $m_{c}$ from HISQ simulations

Kaon semileptonic decays with $N_{f} = 2 + 1 + 1$ HISQ fermions and physical light-quark masses