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The ratio FK/Fpi in QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2011-02-08 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We determine the ratio FK/Fpi in QCD with Nf=2+1 flavors of sea quarks, based on a series of lattice calculations with three different lattice spacings, large volumes and a simulated pion mass reaching down to about 190 MeV. We obtain FK/Fpi=1.192 +/- 0.007(stat) +/- 0.006(syst). This result is then used to give an updated value of the CKM matrix element |Vus|. The unitarity relation for the first row of this matrix is found to be well observed.

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@article{arxiv.1001.4692,
  title  = {The ratio FK/Fpi in QCD},
  author = {S. Durr and Z. Fodor and C. Hoelbling and S. D. Katz and S. Krieg and T. Kurth and L. Lellouch and T. Lippert and A. Ramos and K. K. Szabo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.4692},
  year   = {2011}
}

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15 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables