Author(s)
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Yong, Andrew Zhen Ning (Edinburgh U.) ; Boyle, Peter (Edinburgh U. ; Brookhaven) ; Di Carlo, Matteo (Edinburgh U.) ; Erben, Felix (Edinburgh U.) ; Gülpers, Vera (Edinburgh U.) ; Hansen, Maxwell T. (Edinburgh U.) ; Harris, Tim (Edinburgh U.) ; Hermansson-Truedsson, Nils (U. Bern, AEC) ; Hodgson, Raoul (Edinburgh U.) ; Jüttner, Andreas (Southampton U. ; CERN) ; Portelli, Antonin (Edinburgh U.) ; Richings, James (Edinburgh U.) |
Abstract
| In recent years, lattice determinations of non-perturbative quantities such as $f_K$ and $f_\pi$, which are relevant for $V_{us}$ and $V_{ud}$, have reached an impressive precision of $\mathcal{O}(1\%)$ or better. To make further progress, electromagnetic and strong isospin breaking effects must be included in lattice QCD simulations. We present the status of the RBC/UKQCD lattice calculation of isospin-breaking corrections to light meson leptonic decays. This computation is performed in a (2+1)-flavor QCD simulation using Domain Wall Fermions with near-physical quark masses. The isospin-breaking effects are implemented via a perturbative expansion of the action in $\alpha$ and $(m_u-m_d)$. In this calculation, we work in the electro-quenched approximation and the photons are implemented in the Feynman gauge and $\text{QED}_\text{L}$ formulation. |