Journal Article

FLAG Review 2021

Dürr, S, Pena, C, Wenger, U, Ramos, A, Feng, X, Collins, S, Aoki, Y, Meinel, S, Hashimoto, S, Heller, U. M, Petreczky, P, Monahan, C, Tantalo, N, Fukaya, H, Hernandez, P, Kaneko, T, Colangelo, G, Blum, T, Sharpe, S. R, Lunghi, E, Herdoiza, G, Morte, M. Della, Wittig, H, Onogi, T, Gottlieb, Steven, Sommer, R, Nicholson, A, Golterman, M, Jüttner, A, Dimopoulos, P, Simula, S, Gupta, R, Sint, S, Portelli, A, Simone, J. N, Horsley, R, Van de Water, R

2022

Overview

We review lattice results related to pion, kaon, D-meson, B-meson, and nucleon physics with the aim of making them easily accessible to the nuclear and particle physics communities. More specifically, we report on the determination of the light-quark masses, the form factor f+(0) arising in the semileptonic K→π transition at zero momentum transfer, as well as the decay constant ratio fK/fπ and its consequences for the CKM matrix elements Vus and Vud. Furthermore, we describe the results obtained on the lattice for some of the low-energy constants of SU(2)L×SU(2)R and SU(3)L×SU(3)R Chiral Perturbation Theory. We review the determination of the BK parameter of neutral kaon mixing as well as the additional four B parameters that arise in theories of physics beyond the Standard Model. For the heavy-quark sector, we provide results for mc and mb as well as those for the decay constants, form factors, and mixing parameters of charmed and bottom mesons and baryons. These are the heavy-quark quantities most relevant for the determination of CKM matrix elements and the global CKM unitarity-triangle fit. We review the status of lattice determinations of the strong coupling constant αs. We consider nucleon matrix elements, and review the determinations of the axial, scalar and tensor bilinears, both isovector and flavor diagonal. Finally, in this review we have added a new section reviewing determinations of scale-setting quantities.

• Publisher: Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Charm (particle physics) / Chiral dynamics / Decay rate / Flavor (particle physics) / Form factors / Kaons / Mesons / Momentum transfer / Nucleons / Parameters / Particle physics / Perturbation theory / Physics / Pions / Quarks / Standard model (particle physics) / Tensors