MILC collaboration results for \fB, \fBs, \fD, \fDs and their ratios are presented. These results are still preliminary, but the analysis is close to being completed. Sources of systematic error, both within the quenched approximation and from quenching itself, are estimated. We find, for example, fB=153±10−13+36−0+13MeV, and fBs/fB=1.10±0.02−0.03+0.05−0.02+0.03, where the errors are statistical, systematic (within the quenched approximation), and systematic (of quenching), respectively. The extrapolation to the continuum and the chiral extrapolation are the largest sources of error. Present central values are based on linear chiral extrapolations; a shift to quadratic extrapolations would raise fB by ≈20 MeV and make the error within the quenched approximation more symmetric.
@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9709142,
title = {Heavy-Light Decay Constants from Wilson and Static Quarks},
author = {C. Bernard and T. DeGrand and C. DeTar and Steven Gottlieb and U. M. Heller and J. Hetrick and C. McNeile and K. Rummukainen and R. Sugar and D. Toussaint and M. Wingate},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9709142},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
3 pages, LaTeX with espcrc2.sty and epsf.tex, 1 included postscript figure. Poster presented by C. Bernard at LATTICE '97, Edinburgh, 22-26 July 1997