2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/201224We review the theory that predicts that the decay constant of the excited light pseudo-scalar mesons are suppressed in the chiral limit relative to the pion decay constant. We compute the decay constant of the first excited pion ($π^\prime$) using unquenched QCD at a fixed lattice spacing with sea quarks of mass as low as a third the mass of the strange quark. The final result is very sensitive to the improvement conditions. We obtain $f_{π^\prime} / f_π$ = 0.078(93) in the chiral limit.Updated references. Clarified discussion around equations 2 and 3High Energy Physics - Latticetext