Pseudoscalar meson physics with four dynamical quarks

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We present preliminary results for light, strange and charmed pseudoscalar meson physics from simulations using four flavors of dynamical quarks with the highly improved staggered quark (HISQ) action.

• These simulations include lattice spacings ranging from 0.15 to 0.06 fm, and sea-quark masses both above and at their physical value.
• The major results are charm meson decay constants f_D, f_{D_s} and f_{D_s}/f_D and ratios of quark masses.
• This talk will focus on our procedures for finding the decay constants on each ensemble, the continuum extrapolation, and estimates of systematic error.