M. Di Pierro

Excited heavy-light systems and hadronic transitions

A detailed study of orbital and radial excited states in

B- and D-meson decay constants from three-flavor lattice QCD

{D,D}_{s},B,

Semileptonic D→π/K and B→π/D decays in 2+1 flavor lattice QCD

and

Charmed-meson decay constants in three-flavor lattice QCD

{B}_{s}

B→πlν semileptonic form factor from three-flavor lattice QCD: A model-independent determination of |Vub|

systems is performed. The chiral quark model provides the framework for the calculation of pseudoscalar meson

B̄→D*ℓν̄ form factor at zero recoil from three-flavor lattice QCD: A model independent determination of |Vcb|

(\ensuremath{\pi},K,\dots{})

Quarkonium mass splittings in three-flavor lattice QCD

hadronic transitions among heavy-light excited and ground states. To calculate the excited states masses and wave functions, we must resort to a relativistic quark model. Our model includes the leading order corrections in

Tuning Fermilab heavy quarks in 2+1 flavor lattice QCD with application to hyperfine splittings

{1/m}_{(c,b)}

Neutral B-meson mixing from three-flavor lattice quantum chromodynamics: Determination of the SU(3)-breaking ratio ξ

(e.g., mixing). Numerical results for masses and light hadronic transition rates are compared to existing experimental data. The effective coupling of the chiral quark model can be determined by comparing with independent results from lattice simulations

Visualization of semileptonic form factors from lattice QCD

{(g}_{A}^{8}=0.53\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.11)