Charmed-meson decay constants in three-flavor lattice QCD

Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Sep 16;95(12):122002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.122002. Epub 2005 Sep 14.

Abstract

We present the first lattice QCD calculation with realistic sea quark content of the D+-meson decay constant f(D+). We use the MILC Collaboration's publicly available ensembles of lattice gauge fields, which have a quark sea with two flavors (up and down) much lighter than a third (strange). We obtain f(D+)=201+/-3+/-17 MeV, where the errors are statistical and a combination of systematic errors. We also obtain f(Ds)=249+/-3+/-16 MeV for the Ds meson.