η and η' masses and decay constants from lattice QCD with 2+1+1 quark flavours

Chris Michael, Konstantin Ottnad, Carsten Urbach

Published 2013-11-21Version 1

We investigate the masses and decay constants of eta and eta' mesons using the Wilson twisted mass formulation with N_f=2+1+1 dynamical quark flavours based on gauge configurations of ETMC. We show how to efficiently subtract excited state contributions to the relevant correlation functions and estimate in particular the eta' mass with improved precision. After investigating the strange quark mass dependence and the continuum and chiral extrapolations, we present our results for masses and mixing angle(s) at the physical point. Using chiral perturbation theory we also extract the decay constants f_l and f_s and use them to estimate the decay widths of eta,\eta' to gamma gamma and the transition form factor in the limit of large momentum transfer.