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We present an ab initio study of inclusive semileptonic decays of heavy mesons from lattice QCD. Our approach is based on a recently proposed method, that allows one to address the study of these decays from the analysis of smeared spectral functions extracted from four-point correlators on the lattice, where the smearing is defined in terms of the phase-space integration relevant to the inclusive decays. We present results obtained from gauge-field ensembles from the JLQCD and ETM collaborations, and discuss their relation with theoretical predictions from the operator-product expansion.
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Gambino, P., Hashimoto, S., Mächler, S. et al. Lattice QCD study of inclusive semileptonic decays of heavy mesons. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 83 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2022)083
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