B^0_s and B^0 Mixing in the Standard Model and Beyond: A Progress Report

Abstract

We give a progress report on the calculation of B meson mixing matrix elements, focusing on contributions that could arise beyond the Standard Model. The calculation uses asqtad (light quark) and Fermilab (heavy quark) valence actions and MILC ensembles with 2+1 flavors of asqtad sea quarks. We report preliminary B^0_s fit results, at a lattice spacing of 0.12 fm, for the SUSY basis of effective four-quark mixing operators and include an estimate for the final error budget.

Comments: 2 references added to introduction. 7 pages, 4 figures, Presented at the XXVIII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory June 14-19, 2010, Villasimius, Sardinia Italy