“…In the regime of quark masses that we consider in this work this appears to be a negligible effect. In general, we observe clear signals for the plateaux, which we have furthermore controlled by comparing the extracted values of m π and f π to an analysis including an estimate of the systematic effect due to the choice of the fit interval, see also [49]. • For twisted mass fermions, the use of C PP−SS (t), instead of C PP (t), has a negligible impact on the values of f π and m π in the regime of parameters (quark mass, lattice size and lattice spacing) that we consider in this work.…”