Published July 30, 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Decay constants of the charmed vector mesons D and Ds from QCD sum rules

  • 1. HEPHY, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Nikolsdorfergasse 18, A-1050, Vienna (Austria)
  • 2. Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna (Austria)
  • 3. D.V. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 4. INFN, Sezione di Roma III, Via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146, Roma (Italy)

Description

We present a sum-rule calculation of the decay constants of the charmed vector mesons D and Ds from the two-point correlator of vector currents. First, we show that the perturbative expansion in terms of the pole mass exhibits no sign of convergence whereas the reorganization of this expansion in terms of the MS¯ mass leads to a distinct hierarchy. Second, making use of the operator product expansion in terms of the MS¯ mass, we determine the decay constants of the D and Ds mesons with an emphasis on the uncertainties in these theoretically predicted quantities related both to the input QCD parameters and to the limited accuracy of the method of sum rules. Our results are fD=(252.2±22.3OPE±4syst) MeV and fDs=(305.5±26.8OPE±5syst) MeV. For the ratios of the vector-to-pseudoscalar decay constants we report fD/fD=1.221±0.080OPE±0.008syst and fDs/fDs=1.241±0.057OPE±0.007syst

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.06.007

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2014.06.007;
arXiv
arXiv:1404.0293v2;
PII
S0370-2693(14)00402-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
735
Journal Issue
Complete
Journal Page Range
p. 12-18
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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