26 July 2026 to 1 August 2026
University of Maryland, College Park
US/Eastern timezone

Comparing single-hadron and multi-hadron treatments of a narrow $\rho$ in $B\to\rho\ell\bar{\nu}$

30 Jul 2026, 14:00
20m
Pyon Su (Adele H. Stamp Student Union)

Pyon Su

Adele H. Stamp Student Union

3972 Campus Dr, College Park, MD 20742
Contributed talk Quark and lepton flavor physics Quark and lepton flavor physics

Speaker

Luka Leskovec (Jozef Stefan Institute & Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana)

Description

We compare multi-hadron and single-hadron treatments of $B\to\rho\ell\bar{\nu}$ in lattice QCD using one $N_f=2+1$ clover-Wilson ensemble with $m_\pi \approx 320$ MeV, where the $\rho$ has a decay width of approximately $40$ MeV. In the multi-hadron analysis, the unstable $\rho$ is treated as an interacting $I=1$, $P$-wave $\pi\pi$ final state with the full use of the finite-volume formalism. In contrast, the stable-$\rho$ analysis assumes that the state produced with a $\bar{q}\gamma_\mu q$ interpolator at an intermediate Euclidean-time-distance is the correct state and determines the form factors from its matrix elements. The single-hadron treatment reproduces the qualitative $q^2$ dependence but slightly shifts some form factors (statistically significantly).

Author

Luka Leskovec (Jozef Stefan Institute & Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana)

Co-authors

Andrew Pochinsky John Negele (MIT) Srijit Paul (University of Cyprus) Prof. Stefan Meinel (University of Arizona)

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