Published October 29, 1987 | Version v1
Journal article

Leptonic decay constants of charm and beauty mesons in QCD

  • 1. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany, F.R.)
  • 2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trieste (Italy)
  • 3. International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste (Italy)
  • 4. Trieste Univ. (Italy). Dipt. di Fisica Teorica

Description

Leptonic decay constants of heavy pseudoscalar mesons are estimated in QCD by means of Hilbert transform power-moment sum rules at Q2 = 0. The meson masses are also obtained in order to assess the reliability of these predictions. Our results are fD/fπ = 1.7 ± 0.2, fF/fπ = 2.1 ± 0.1, and fB/fπ = 1.1-1.6. As a byproduct a bound on fBS/fB is obtained. (orig.)

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Journal Title
Phys. Lett., B
Journal Volume
197
Journal Issue
3
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
423-429
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA