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The Ds and D+ Leptonic Decay Constants from Lattice QCD

Conference · · PoS LAT2009:249,2009
OSTI ID:970061
We present the leptonic decay constants f{sub D{sub s}} and f{sub D{sup +}} computed on the MILC collaboration's 2+1 flavor asqtad gauge ensembles. We use clover heavy quarks with the Fermilab interpretation and improved staggered light quarks. The simultaneous chiral and continuum extrapolation, which determines both decay constants, includes partially-quenched lattice results at lattice spacings a {approx} 0.09, 0.12 and 0.15 fm. We have made several recent improvements in our analysis: (a) we include terms in the fit describing leading order heavy-quark discretization effects, (b) we have adopted a more precise input r{sub 1} value consistent with our other D and B meson studies, (c) we have retuned the input bare charm masses based upon the new r{sub 1}. Our preliminary results are f{sub D{sub s}} = 260 {+-} 10 MeV and f{sub D{sup +}} = 217 {+-} 10 MeV.
Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
970061
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-CONF-09-633-T; arXiv eprint number arXiv:0912.5221
Conference Information:
Journal Name: PoS LAT2009:249,2009
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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