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The B_c lifetime in the Standard Model

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arxiv 2111.07076 v1 pith:5URWANEF submitted 2021-11-13 hep-ph

The B_c lifetime in the Standard Model

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Using an operator product expansion (OPE) approach an updated Standard Model prediction of the $B_c$ lifetime is presented. The computation in three different mass schemes for the heavy quarks leads to three different values consistent with each other and with experiment. Furthermore a novel way to compute the $B_c$ lifetime is presented, taking differences of $B,D$ and $B_c$ meson decay rates. In this approach the leading contributions from free-quark decays cancel out, leading to a reduction of scale and scheme dependence.

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