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First Lattice Calculation of the QED Corrections to Leptonic Decay Rates
D Giusti1, V Lubicz1, C Tarantino1
1Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università Roma Tre and INFN Sezione di Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Rome, Italy.
Abstract:
The leading-order electromagnetic and strong isospin-breaking corrections to the ratio of K_{μ2} and π_{μ2} decay rates are evaluated for the first time on the lattice, following a method recently proposed. The lattice results are obtained using the gauge ensembles produced by the European Twisted Mass Collaboration with N_{f}=2+1+1 dynamical quarks. Systematic effects are evaluated and the impact of the quenched QED approximation is estimated. Our result for the correction to the tree-level K_{μ2}/π_{μ2} decay ratio is -1.22(16)%, to be compared to the estimate of -1.12(21)% based on chiral perturbation theory and adopted by the Particle Data Group.
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