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How light can the Higgs be?
It is widely believed that, for a given Top mass, the Higgs mass has a lower
bound: if m_Higgs is too small, the Higgs vacuum is unstable due to Top
dynamics. From vacuum instability, the state-of-the-art calculation of the
lower bound is close to the current experimental limit. Using non-perturbative
simulations and large N calculations, we show that the vacuum is in fact never
unstable. Instead, we investigate the existence of a new lower bound, based on
the intrinsic cut-off of this trivial theory.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figures, uses espcrc2.sty, Lattice2003(higgs
QCD String Spectrum 2002
Results from a comprehensive new analysis on the excitation spectrum of the
QCD string are presented. A rapid onset of string formation is observed in the
spectrum on a length scale of 2 fm, with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The
crossover from the short distance spectrum towards string excitations and an
observed fine structure in the 1--3 fm range are related to effective string
theory. The deficiencies of the Nambu-Goto bosonic string model in describing
the observed spectrum are briefly discussed.Comment: Lattice2002(topology), 3 pages, 2 figure
Excitations of the static quark-antiquark system in several gauge theories
The spectrum of gluons in the presence of a static quark-antiquark pair is
studied using Monte Carlo simulations on anisotropic space-time lattices. For
very small quark-antiquark separations R, the level orderings and approximate
degeneracies disagree with the expectations from an effective string theory. As
the quark-antiquark separation R increases, a dramatic rearrangement of the
energies occurs, and above 2 fm, all of the levels studied show behavior
consistent with an effective string description. The energy spacings are nearly
pi/R, but a tantalizing fine structure remains. In addition to 4-dimensional
SU(3) gauge theory, results from 3-dimensional SU(2) and compact U(1) gauge
theories are also presented.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, talk presented at the International Conference
on Color Confinement and Hadrons in Quantum Chromodynamics (Confinement
2003), RIKEN, July 21-24, 200
Zero Point Energy of Renormalized Wilson Loops
The quark antiquark potential, and its associated zero point energy, can be
extracted from lattice measurements of the Wilson loop. We discuss a unique
prescription to renormalize the Wilson loop, for which the perturbative
contribution to the zero point energy vanishes identically. A zero point energy
can arise nonperturbatively, which we illustrate by considering effective
string models. The nonperturbative contribution to the zero point energy
vanishes in the Nambu model, but is nonzero when terms for extrinsic curvature
are included. At one loop order, the nonperturbative contribution to the zero
point energy is negative, regardless of the sign of the extrinsic curvature
term.Comment: 14 pages, ReVTeX. Paper shortened, results unchange
The heavy-quark hybrid meson spectrum in lattice QCD
Recent findings on the spectrum of heavy-quark mesons from computer
simulations of quarks and gluons in lattice QCD are summarized, with particular
attention to quark-antiquark states bound by an excited gluon field. The
validity of a Born-Oppenheimer treatment for such systems is discussed. Recent
results on glueball masses, the light-quark 1-+ hybrid meson mass, and the
static three-quark potential are summarized.Comment: 15 pages, 13 figures, talk given at the Workshop on Scalar Mesons: An
Interesting Puzzle for QCD, SUNY Institute of Technology, Utica, NY, May
16-18, 2003, submitted to American Institute of Physics Conference
Proceedings. After publication, it will be found at
http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings
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