Flavour breaking effects in the pseudoscalar meson decay constants

The SU(3) flavour symmetry breaking expansion in up, down and strange quark masses is extended from hadron masses to meson decay constants. This allows a determination of the ratio of kaon to pion decay constants in QCD. Furthermore when using partially quenched valence quarks the expansion is such...

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Main Authors: V.G. Bornyakov, R. Horsley, Y. Nakamura, H. Perlt, D. Pleiter, P.E.L. Rakow, G. Schierholz, A. Schiller, H. Stüben, J.M. Zanotti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-04-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269317301089