Strong Isospin Breaking in Heavy-Meson Decay Constants: Employing Borelized QCD Sum Rules in Local-Duality Limit

Abstract

Applying the QCD sum-rule machinery in the so-called local-duality shape to heavy-light mesons reveals that, as a consequence of the non-zero mass gap between up and down quarks, the leptonic decay constants of the neutral and charged versions of the D, D*, B and B* mesons differ by approximately 1 MeV.