26 July 2026 to 1 August 2026
University of Maryland, College Park
US/Eastern timezone

$F_{K}/F_{\pi}$ and $F_{D_{s}}/F_{D}$ from four flavor Möbius Domain Wall Fermions

28 Jul 2026, 15:20
20m
Pyon Su (Adele H. Stamp Student Union)

Pyon Su

Adele H. Stamp Student Union

3972 Campus Dr, College Park, MD 20742
Contributed talk Quark and lepton flavor physics Quark and lepton flavor physics

Speaker

Zack Hall (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Description

We present a determination for the ratio of light and D meson decay constants in lattice QCD. This work employs a new four flavor Möbius Domain Wall fermion action with 30 ensembles across five lattice-spacings, multiple volumes, and a range of pion mass down to the physical point. In this talk we will discuss our calculation and extrapolation analyses, giving $F_{K^{\pm}}/F_{\pi^{\pm}}$ = 1.1962(34), along with preliminary results for $F_{D_s}/F_{D}$ which are both key inputs for precision tests of CKM unitarity.

Authors

Dr Renwick Hudspith (Carnegie Mellon University) Dr Nicolas Garron (Liverpool Hope University) Zack Hall (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Dr Andrew Hanlon (Kent State University) Dr Colin Morningstar (Carnegie Mellon University) Dr Amy Nicholson (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Dr Dimitra Pefkou (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Dr Thomas Richardson (University of California Berkeley) Dr Fernando Romero-López (University of Bern) Dr Miguel Salg (University of Bern) Dr Wyatt Smith (The College of William and Mary) Dr Pavlos Vranas (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Andre Walker-Loud (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Dr Bigeng Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

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