PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 380 - Particles and Nuclei International Conference 2021 (PANIC2021) - Flavour physics - CKM and beyond
The $B_c$ lifetime in the Standard Model
J. Aebischer* and B. Grinstein
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Pre-published on: March 11, 2022
Published on: May 24, 2022
Abstract
Using an operator product expansion (OPE) approach an updated Standard Model prediction of the $B_c$ lifetime is presented. The computation in three different mass schemes for the heavy quarks leads to three different values consistent with each other and with experiment. Furthermore a novel way to compute the $B_c$ lifetime is presented, taking differences of $B,D$ and $B_c$ meson decay rates. In this approach the leading contributions from free-quark decays cancel out, leading to a reduction of scale and scheme dependence.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.380.0145
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