We update our previous determination of both the decay constant and the mass of the Ds 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 mDs = 1.9691(32) GeV, in good agreement with experiment, and fDs = 0.2480(25) GeV. Our result for fDs is 1.6σ lower than the most recent experimental average determined from the Ds leptonic decay rate and using Vcs from CKM unitarity. Combining our fDs with the experimental rate we obtain a direct determination of Vcs=1.010(22), or alternatively 0.990−0.016+0.013 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, fηc = 0.3947(24) GeV, as a calibration point for other lattice calculations.
@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