Semileptonic $D \rightarrow \pi \ell \nu$, $D \rightarrow K \ell \nu$ and $D_s \rightarrow K \ell \nu$ decays with 2+1f Domain Wall Fermions

29 Jul 2021, 14:30
15m
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Speaker

Michael Marshall (University of Edinburgh)

Description

We present the status of a project to calculate $D \rightarrow \pi \ell \nu$, $D \rightarrow K \ell \nu$ and $D_s \rightarrow K \ell \nu$ semileptonic form factors with 2+1f Domain Wall Fermions for both heavy and light quarks. We plan to cover the full kinematic range and three point functions are being computed on the RBC-UKQCD Iwasaki gauge ensembles. Given the exponential growth of noise, good projection on the ground state is critical for success. We include an analysis of operator diagonalisation within several possible $2 \times 2$ operator bases and find an admixture of gauged fixed wall and $\mathbb{Z} \left( 2 \right)$ wall sources to be acceptable at both zero and non-zero momentum. Initial results for semileptonic form factors are presented for first ensembles.

Primary authors

Peter Boyle Michael Marshall (University of Edinburgh)

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