Mass of the Bc meson in three-flavor lattice QCD.
We use lattice QCD to predict the mass of the Bc meson. We use the MILC Collaboration's ensembles of lattice gauge fields, which have a quark sea with two flavors much lighter than a third. Our final result is mBc = 6304+/-12(+18)(-0) MeV. The first error bar is a sum in quadrature of statistical and systematic uncertainties, and the second is an estimate of heavy-quark discretization effects.
Allison
Ian F
IF
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Davies
Christine T H
CT
Gray
Alan
A
Kronfeld
Andreas S
AS
Mackenzie
Paul B
PB
Simone
James N
JN