PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 466 - The 41st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (LATTICE2024) - Quark and Lepton Flavour Physics
Form factor curves consistent with unitarity for semileptonic decays
C. Radley-Scott*, J. Flynn and N. Husung
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Pre-published on: December 20, 2024
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Abstract
We discuss a method to generate form factor curves
consistent with dispersive constraints across the entire kinematic
range for exclusive semileptonic (SL) pseudoscalar to pseudoscalar
decays, for example $B \rightarrow \pi \ell \nu$ and $B_s \rightarrow
K \ell \nu$. The work builds on the Dispersive Matrix (DM) method
which allows model-independent extrapolation to any desired $q^2$
value in the SL physical region using known form factor information
at specific discrete $q^2$ points as input. Here $q$ is the outgoing
lepton-pair 4-momentum. An obstacle in using DM results for
phenomenological predictions, such as forward-backward asymmetries,
is that it is not obvious how to use the bounds over continuous
ranges of $q^2$ when integrating, for example, the differential
decay rate over the physical $q^2$ range or over bins in $q^2$. We
describe a method to generate a family of curves, each consistent
with unitarity constraints, that can be used in the same way as a
set generated from a parametrized fit (e.g. a $z$-fit). This allows
integration over any desired bins. We further show some techniques
to increase the computational efficiency of the method. We
demonstrate the application to determining $|V_{ub}|$.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.466.0253
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