Isospin breaking in the decay constants of heavy mesons from QCD sum rules

We present a study of the strong isospin-breaking (IB) effect, due in QCD to the difference between u- and d-quark masses, in the leptonic decay constants of charmed and beauty pseudoscalar and vector mesons using the method of QCD sum rules. We apply the sum-rule analysis to the decay constants of...

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Main Authors: Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov, Silvano Simula
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-02-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269316307870