https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20148000046
Decay Constants of Beauty Mesons from QCD Sum Rules
1 Institute for High Energy Physics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Nikolsdorfergasse 18, A-1050 Vienna, Austria
2 Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
3 D. V. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia
4 INFN, Sezione di Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146, Roma, Italy
a e-mail: Wolfgang.Lucha@oeaw.ac.at
b e-mail: dmitri_melikhov@gmx.de
c e-mail: simula@roma3.infn.it
Published online: 24 November 2014
Our recently completed analysis of the decay constants of both pseudoscalar and vector beauty mesons reveals that in the bottom-quark sector two specific features of the sum-rule predictions show up: (i) For the input value of the bottom-quark mass in the M̅S̅ scheme m̅b(m̅b) ≈ 4:18 GeV; the sum-rule result fB ≈ 210–220 MeV for the B meson decay constant is substantially larger than the recent lattice-QCD finding fB ≈ 190 MeV: Requiring QCD sum rules to reproduce the lattice-QCD value of fB yields a significantly larger b-quark mass: m̅b(m̅b) = 4:247 GeV: (ii) Whereas QCD sum-rule predictions for the charmed-meson decay constants fD; fDs, fD* and fDs* are practically independent of the choice of renormalization scale, in the beauty sector the results for the decay constants—and especially for the ratio fB* / fB—prove to be very sensitive to the specific scale setting.
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