Precision bottomonium properties and b quark mass from lattice QCD

TL;DR

This paper provides the most precise lattice QCD calculations of bottomonium properties and the b quark mass, testing QCD predictions against experimental data with improved accuracy.

Contribution

It delivers highly accurate lattice QCD results for bottomonium hyperfine splitting, decay constants, and a nonperturbative determination of the b quark mass including QED effects.

Findings

Hyperfine splitting: 57.5(2.3)(1.0) MeV

Decay constants: f_eta_b = 724(12) MeV, f_Upsilon = 677.2(9.7) MeV

b quark mass: 4.202(21) GeV

Abstract

As tests of QCD in the bottomonium system, we give the most accurate results to date for the ground-state hyperfine splitting and the $\Upsilon$ leptonic width from full lattice QCD. These quantities are both accurately known from experiment, so can provide a good test of $b$ physics, but previous lattice results have been rather imprecise. We also test the impact on these quantities of the $b$ quark's electric charge. Our results are: $M_{\Upsilon}-M_{\eta_b} = $ 57.5(2.3)(1.0) MeV (where the second uncertainty comes from neglect of quark-line disconnected correlation functions) and decay constants, $f_{\eta_b} =$ 724(12) MeV and $f_{\Upsilon} =$ 677.2(9.7) MeV, giving $\Gamma(\Upsilon \rightarrow e^+e^-) =$ 1.292(37)(3) keV. We also give a new determination of the ratio of the masses for $b$ and $c$ quarks that is completely nonperturbative in lattice QCD and includes the calculation of QED effects for the first time. This gives a result for the $b$ quark mass of $\overline{m}_b(\overline{m}_b,n_f=5) =$ 4.202(21) GeV.