The decay constant of the first excited pion from lattice QCD UKQCD Collaboration
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چکیده
We review the theory that predicts that the decay constant of the excited light pseudo-scalar mesons are suppressed in the chiral limit relative to the pion decay constant. We compute the decay constant of the first excited pion (π′) using unquenched QCD at a fixed lattice spacing with sea quarks of mass as low as a third the mass of the strange quark. The final result is very sensitive to the improvement conditions. We obtain f π ′/fπ = 0.078(93) in the chiral limit.
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