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Title: Charmed and light pseudoscalar meson decay constants from four-flavor lattice QCD with physical light quarks

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

We compute the leptonic decay constants fD+, fDs , and fK+, and the quark-mass ratios mc=ms and ms=ml in unquenched lattice QCD using the experimentally determined value of fπ+ for normalization. We use the MILC Highly Improved Staggered Quark (HISQ) ensembles with four dynamical quark flavors -- up, down, strange, and charm -- and with both physical and unphysical values of the light sea-quark masses. The use of physical pions removes the need for a chiral extrapolation, thereby eliminating a significant source of uncertainty in previous calculations. Four different lattice spacing ranging from a ≈ 0:06 fm to 0:15 fm are included in the analysis to control the extrapolation to the continuum limit. Our primary results are fD+ = 212:6(0:4)$$(^{+1.0}_{-1.2})$$ MeV, fDs = 249:0(0:3)$$(^{+1.1}_{-1.5})$$ MeV, and fDs/fD+ = 1:1712(10)$$(^{+29}_{-32})$$, where the errors are statistical and total systematic, respectively. The errors on our results for the charm decay constants and their ratio are approximately two to four times smaller than those of the most precise previous lattice calculations. We also obtain fK+/ fπ+ = 1:1956(10)$$(^{+26}_{-18})$$, updating our previous result, and determine the quark-mass ratios ms/ml = 27:35(5)$$(^{+10}_{-7})$$ and mc/ms = 11:747(19)$$(^{+59}_{-43})$$. When combined with experimental measurements of the decay rates, our results lead to precise determinations of the CKM matrix elements !Vus! = 0:22487(51)(29)(20)(5), !Vcd! = 0:217(1)(5)(1) and !Vcs! = 1:010(5)(18)(6), where the errors are from this calculation of the decay constants, the uncertainty in the experimental decay rates, structure-dependent electromagnetic corrections, and, in the case of !Vus!, the uncertainty in |Vud|, respectively.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Organization:
Fermilab Lattice and MILC Collaborations
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359; FG02-91ER40628; FC02-12ER41879; FG02-91ER40661; SC0010120; FC02-06ER41443; FG02-13ER42001; FG02-04ER-41298; FG02-13ER-41976; FC02-06ER-41439
OSTI ID:
1296747
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1213903
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-14-230-T; arXiv:1407.3772; PRVDAQ; 1306303
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 90, Issue 7; ISSN 1550-7998
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 98 works
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