Decay Constants of Heavy-Light Mesons from QCD

Abstract

We summarize our recently improved results for the pseudoscalar [S. Narison, Phys.Lett. B718 (2013) 132; S. Narison, Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 234 (2013) 187; S. Narison, Phys.Lett. B721 (2013) 269], vector and Bc [S. Narison, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A30 (2015) 20, 1550116] meson decay constants from QCD spectral sum rules where N2LO⊕ estimate of the N3LO PT⊕d≤6 condensates have been included in the SVZ expansion. The “optimal results” based on stability criteria with respect to the variations of the Laplace/Moments sum rule variables, QCD continuum threshold and subtraction constant μ are compared with recent sum rules and lattice calculations. To understand the “apparent tension” between some recent results, we present in Section 8 a novel extraction of forfB⁎/fBfrom heavy quark effective theory (HQET) sum rules by including the normalization factor (Mb/MB)2 relating the pseudoscalar to the universal HQET correlators for finite b-quark and B-meson masses. We obtain fB⁎/fB=1.025(16) in good agreement with 1.016(16) from spectral sum rules (SR) in full QCD [3]. We complete the paper by including new improved estimates of the scalar, axial andBc⁎meson decay constants (Sections 11–13). For further phenomenological uses, we attempt to extract a Global Average of the sum rules and lattice determinations which are summarized in Tables 2–6. We do not found any deviation of these SM results from the present data.