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Scanning the Topological Sectors of the QCD Vacuum with Hybrid Monte Carlo
We address a long standing issue and determine the decorrelation efficiency
of the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm (HMC), for full QCD with Wilson fermions,
with respect to vacuum topology. On the basis of five state-of-the art QCD
vacuum field ensembles (with 3000 to 5000 trajectories each and
m_pi/m_rho-ratios in the regime >0.56, for two sea quark flavours) we are able
to establish, for the first time, that HMC provides sufficient tunneling
between the different topological sectors of QCD. This will have an important
bearing on the prospect to determine, by lattice techniques, the topological
susceptibility of the vacuum, and topology sensitive quantities like the spin
content of the proton, or the eta' mass.Comment: 5 pages, 4 eps-figure
Beautiful Baryons from Lattice QCD
We perform a lattice study of heavy baryons, containing one () or
two -quarks (). Using the quenched approximation we obtain for the
mass of
The mass splitting between the and the B-meson is found to increase
by about 20\% if the light quark mass is varied from the chiral limit to the
strange quark mass.Comment: 11 pages, Figures obtained upon request from [email protected]
The Leptonic Decay Constants of Mesons and the Lattice Resolution
We present a high statistics study of the leptonic decay constant of
heavy pseudoscalar mesons using propagating heavy Wilson quarks within the
quenched approximation, on lattices covering sizes from about 0.7~fm to 2~fm.
Varying between 5.74 and 6.26 we observe a sizeable dependence of
when one uses the quark field normalization that was suggested by
Kronfeld and Mackenzie, compared with the weaker dependence observed for the
standard relativistic norm. The two schemes come into agreement when one
extrapolates to . The extrapolations needed to reach the
continuum quantity introduce large errors and lead to the value
~GeV in the quenched approximation. This suggests that much more
effort will be needed to obtain an accurate lattice prediction for .Comment: 11 pages Latex + 5 tables + 8 postscript figures, unix shell archive,
DESY preprint DESY 93-17
A High Precision Study of the QQ(bar) Potential from Wilson Loops in the Regime of String Breaking
For lattice QCD with two sea quark flavours we compute the static quark
antiquark potential V(R) in the regime where string breaking is expected. In
order to increase statistics, we make full use of the lattice information by
including all lattice vectors R to any possible lattice separation in the
infrared regime. The corresponding paths between the lattice points are
constructed by means of a generalized Bresenham algorithm as known from
computer graphics. As a results we achieve a determination of the unquenched
potential in the range .8 to 1.5 fm with hitherto unknown precision.
Furthermore, we demonstrate some error reducing methods for the evaluation of
the transition matrix element between two- and four-quark states.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figure
Improved Upsilon Spectrum with Dynamical Wilson Fermions
We present results for the b \bar b spectrum obtained using an
O(M_bv^6)-correct non-relativistic lattice QCD action, where M_b denotes the
bare b-quark mass and v^2 is the mean squared quark velocity. Propagators are
evaluated on SESAM's three sets of dynamical gauge configurations generated
with two flavours of Wilson fermions at beta = 5.6. These results, the first of
their kind obtained with dynamical Wilson fermions, are compared to a quenched
analysis at equivalent lattice spacing, beta = 6.0. Using our three sea-quark
values we perform the ``chiral'' extrapolation to m_eff = m_s/3, where m_s
denotes the strange quark mass. The light quark mass dependence is found to be
small in relation to the statistical errors. Comparing the full QCD result to
our quenched simulation we find better agreement of our dynamical data with
experimental results in the spin-independent sector but observe no unquenching
effects in hyperfine-splittings. To pin down the systematic errors we have also
compared quenched results in different ``tadpole'' schemes as well as using a
lower order action. We find that spin-splittings with an O(M_bv^4) action are
O(10%) higher compared to O(M_bv^6) results. Relative to the results obtained
with the plaquette method the Landau gauge mean link tadpole scheme raises the
spin splittings by about the same margin so that our two improvements are
opposite in effect.Comment: 24 pages (latex file, Phys Rev D style file, uses epsf-style
Flavor Singlet Axial Vector Coupling of the Proton with Dynamical Wilson Fermions
We present the results of a full QCD lattice calculation of the flavor
singlet axial vector coupling of the proton. The simulation has been
carried out on a lattice at with dynamical
Wilson fermions. It turns out that the statistical quality of the connected
contribution to is excellent, whereas the disconnected part is
accessible but suffers from large statistical fluctuations. Using a 1st order
tadpole improved renormalization constant , we estimate .Comment: 13 pages, 5 eps figures, minor changes to text and citation
Lattice QCD Calculations of Leptonic and Semileptonic Decays
In lattice QCD, obtaining properties of heavy-light mesons has been easier
said than done. Focusing on the meson's decay constant, it is argued that
towards the end of 1997 the last obstacles were removed, at least in the
quenched approximation. These developments, which resulted from a fuller
understanding and implementation of ideas in effective field theory, bode well
for current studies of neutral meson mixing and of semileptonic decays.Comment: Invited talk at the Workshop on Heavy Quarks at Fixed Target, October
10-12, 1998, Fermi National Accelerator Laborator
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