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Meson Decay Constant Predictions of the Valence Approximation to Lattice QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2008-02-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We evaluate fπ/mρf_{\pi}/ m_{\rho}, fK/mρf_K/ m_{\rho}, 1/fρ1/f_{\rho}, and mϕ/(fϕmρ) m_{\phi}/(f_{\phi} m_{\rho}), extrapolated to physical quark mass, zero lattice spacing and infinite volume, for lattice QCD with Wilson quarks in the valence (quenched) approximation. The predicted mϕ/(fϕmρ)m_{\phi}/(f_{\phi} m_{\rho}) differs from experiment by less than its statistical uncertainty of approximately 15\%. The other three constants are 10\% to 20\% below experiment, equivalent to between one and two times the corresponding statistical uncertainties.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9302012,
  title  = {Meson Decay Constant Predictions of the Valence Approximation to Lattice QCD},
  author = {F. Butler and H. Chen and J. Sexton and A. Vaccarino and D. Weingarten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9302012},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

14 pages of Latex using REVTEX macros, included, plus Postscript for 2 figures, also included. (corrected two typos, one somewhat confusing)