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Update: Precision D_s decay constant from full lattice QCD using very fine lattices

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2010-12-24 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We update our previous determination of both the decay constant and the mass of the DsD_s meson using the Highly Improved Staggered Quark formalism. We include additional results at two finer values of the lattice spacing along with improved determinations of the lattice spacing and improved tuning of the charm and strange quark masses. We obtain mDsm_{D_s} = 1.9691(32) GeV, in good agreement with experiment, and fDsf_{D_s} = 0.2480(25) GeV. Our result for fDsf_{D_s} is 1.6σ\sigma lower than the most recent experimental average determined from the DsD_s leptonic decay rate and using VcsV_{cs} from CKM unitarity. Combining our fDsf_{D_s} with the experimental rate we obtain a direct determination of Vcs=1.010(22)V_{cs} = 1.010(22), or alternatively 0.990+0.0130.0160.990 {+0.013 \atop -0.016} using a probability distribution for statistical errors for this quantity which vanishes above 1. We also include an accurate prediction of the decay constant of the ηc\eta_c, fηcf_{\eta_c} = 0.3947(24) GeV, as a calibration point for other lattice calculations.

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@article{arxiv.1008.4018,
  title  = {Update: Precision D_s decay constant from full lattice QCD using very fine lattices},
  author = {C. T. H. Davies and C. McNeile and E. Follana and G. P. Lepage and H. Na and J. Shigemitsu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.4018},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

24 pages, 20 figures. Updated to include new experimental results from BaBar, new experimental averages from HFAG and consequent discussion of theory/experiment comparison. Other minor typographical changes. Version accepted by Phys. Rev. D

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