Semileptonic $B_c$ decays from full lattice QCD

Abstract

We present first lattice QCD results for semileptonic form factors for the decays $B_c\to {\eta }_{c}l\nu$ and $B_c\to J/\psi l\nu$ over the full $q^2$ range, using both improved non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) and fully relativistic (HISQ) formalisms. These can be viewed as prototype calculations for pseudoscalar to pseudoscalar and pseudoscalar to vector decays involving a $b\to c$ transition. In particular we can use information from the relativistic computations to fix the NRQCD current normalisations, which can then be used in improved computations of decays such as $B\to Dl\nu$ and $B\to D^{\ast }l\nu$.

Comments: 3 pages, 3 figures. Poster presented at the 16th International Conference on B-Physics at Frontier Machines, 2-6 May 2016, Marseille, France