Total decay rates of B mesons at NNLO-QCD
A bstract We update the Standard Model (SM) predictions for the lifetimes of the B + , B d and B s mesons within the heavy quark expansion (HQE), including the recently determined NNLO-QCD corrections to non-leptonic decays of the free b -quark. In addition, we update the HQE predictions for the lifetime ratios τ ( B + )/ τ ( B d ) and τ ( B s )/ τ ( B d ), and provide new results for the semileptonic branching fractions of the three mesons entirely within the HQE. We obtain a considerable improvement of the theoretical uncertainties, mostly due to the reduction of the renormalisation scale dependence when going from LO to NNLO, and for all the observables considered, we find good agreement, within uncertainties, between the HQE predictions and the corresponding experimental data. Our results read, respectively, Γ( B + ) = $$ {0.587}_{-0.035}^{+0.025} $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mn>0.587</mml:mn> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>−</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0.035</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0.025</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:msubsup> </mml:math> ps −1 , Γ( B d ) = $$ {0.636}_{-0.037}^{+0.028} $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mn>0.636</mml:mn> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>−</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0.037</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0.028</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:msubsup> </mml:math> ps −1 , Γ( B s ) = $$ {0.628}_{-0.035}^{+0.027} $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mn>0.628</mml:mn> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>−</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0.035</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0.027</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:msubsup> </mml:math> ps −1 , for the total decay widths, τ ( B + )/ τ ( B d ) = $$ {1.081}_{-0.016}^{+0.014} $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mn>1.081</mml:mn> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>−</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0.016</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0.014</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:msubsup> </mml:math> , τ ( B s )/ τ ( B d ) = $$ {1.013}_{-0.007}^{+0.007} $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mn>1.013</mml:mn> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>−</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0.007</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0.007</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:msubsup> </mml:math> , for the lifetime ratios, and $$ {\mathcal{B}}_{\textrm{sl}}\left({B}^{+}\right) $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>B</mml:mi> <mml:mi>sl</mml:mi> </mml:msub> <mml:mfenced> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>B</mml:mi> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> </mml:msup> </mml:mfenced> </mml:math> = $$ \left({11.46}_{-0.32}^{+0.47}\right)\% $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mfenced> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mn>11.46</mml:mn> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>−</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0.32</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0.47</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:msubsup> </mml:mfenced> <mml:mo>%</mml:mo> </mml:math> , $$ {\mathcal{B}}_{\textrm{sl}}\left({B}_d\right) $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>B</mml:mi> <mml:mi>sl</mml:mi> </mml:msub> <mml:mfenced> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>B</mml:mi> <mml:mi>d</mml:mi> </mml:msub> </mml:mfenced> </mml:math> = $$ \left({10.57}_{-0.27}^{+0.47}\right)\% $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mfenced> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mn>10.57</mml:mn> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>−</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0.27</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> <mml:mn>0.47</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:msubsup> </mml:mfenced> <mml:mo>%</mml:mo> </mml:math> , $$ {\mathcal{B}}_{\textrm{sl}}\left({B}_s\right) $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>B</mml:mi> <mml:mi>sl</mml:mi> </mml:msub> <mml:mfenced> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>B</mml:mi> <mml:mi>s</mml:mi> </mml:msub> </mml:mfenced> </mml:math> </jats:in
Authors
- Maria Laura Piscopo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0796-5561)
- Matteo Fael (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4541-9636)
- Alexander Lenz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3976-035X)
- Matthias Steinhauser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8146-8240)
- Kay Schönwald (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2726-5434)
- Manuel Egner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7171-3006)
- Aleksey V. Rusov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7037-6391)
Institutions
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)
- University of Padua (IT)
- University of Zurich (CH)
- University of Siegen (DE)
- Folkwang University of the Arts (DE)
- National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NL)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova (IT)
- Vitenparken (NO)
- Technical University of Munich (DE)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Published
- 2025-04-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04(2025)106
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 7.48
Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz