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Charmed-meson decay constants in three-flavor lattice QCD

  • C. Aubin
  • , C. Bernard
  • , C. Detar
  • , M. Di Pierro
  • , E. D. Freeland
  • , Steven Gottlieb
  • , U. M. Heller
  • , J. E. Hetrick
  • , A. X. El-Khadra
  • , A. S. Kronfeld
  • , L. Levkova
  • , P. B. MacKenzie
  • , D. Menscher
  • , F. Maresca
  • , M. Nobes
  • , M. Okamoto
  • , D. Renner
  • , J. Simone
  • , R. Sugar
  • , D. Toussaint
  • H. D. Trottier

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Abstract

We present the first lattice QCD calculation with realistic sea quark content of the D+-meson decay constant fD+. We use the MILC Collaboration's publicly available ensembles of lattice gauge fields, which have a quark sea with two flavors (up and down) much lighter than a third (strange). We obtain fD+=201±3±17MeV, where the errors are statistical and a combination of systematic errors. We also obtain fDs=249±3±16MeV for the Ds meson.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number122002
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume95
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 16 2005

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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