Neutral-kaon mixing from (2+1)-flavor domain-wall QCD

Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Jan 25;100(3):032001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.032001. Epub 2008 Jan 22.

Abstract

We present the first results for neutral-kaon mixing using (2+1)-flavors of domain-wall fermions. A new approach is used to extrapolate to the physical up and down quark masses from our numerical studies with pion masses in the range 240-420 MeV; only SU(2)_{L}xSU(2)_{R} chiral symmetry is assumed and the kaon is not assumed to be light. Our main result is B_{K};{MS[over ]}(2 GeV)=0.524(10)(28) where the first error is statistical and the second incorporates estimates for all systematic errors.