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Finite Temperature QCD with Wilson Quarks: A Study with a Renormalization Group Improved Gauge Action
Finite temperature transition in lattice QCD with degenerate Wilson quarks is
investigated on an lattice, using a renormalization group improved
gauge action. We find the following for the case:
1) The transition is smooth for a wide range of the quark mass.
2) The chiral transition is continuous.
3) The chiral condensation well satisfies a scaling relation with the
critical exponents of the 3 dimensional spin model. For , we find
that the chiral transition is of first order.Comment: 4 pages (6 figures), Postscript file, Contribution to Lattice 95
proceeding
LIDA: A Working Model of Cognition
In this paper we present the LIDA architecture as a working model of cognition. We argue that such working models are broad in scope and address real world problems in comparison to experimentally based models which focus on specific pieces of cognition. While experimentally based models are useful, we need a working model of cognition that integrates what we know from neuroscience, cognitive science and AI. The LIDA architecture provides such a working model. A LIDA based cognitive robot or software agent will be capable of multiple learning mechanisms. With artificial feelings and emotions as primary motivators and learning facilitators, such systems will âliveâ through a developmental period during which they will learn in multiple ways to act in an effective, human-like manner in complex, dynamic, and unpredictable environments. We discuss the integration of the learning mechanisms into the existing IDA architecture as a working model of cognition
Order of the Chiral and Continuum Limits in Staggered Chiral Perturbation Theory
Durr and Hoelbling recently observed that the continuum and chiral limits do
not commute in the two dimensional, one flavor, Schwinger model with staggered
fermions. I point out that such lack of commutativity can also be seen in
four-dimensional staggered chiral perturbation theory (SChPT) in quenched or
partially quenched quantities constructed to be particularly sensitive to the
chiral limit. Although the physics involved in the SChPT examples is quite
different from that in the Schwinger model, neither singularity seems to be
connected to the trick of taking the nth root of the fermion determinant to
remove unwanted degrees of freedom ("tastes"). Further, I argue that the
singularities in SChPT are absent in most commonly-computed quantities in the
unquenched (full) QCD case and do not imply any unexpected systematic errors in
recent MILC calculations with staggered fermions.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figure. v3: Spurious symbol, introduced by conflicting
tex macros, removed. Clarification of discussion in several place
Phase structure of QCD for general number of flavors
We investigate and elucidate the phase structure of QCD for general number of
flavors with Wilson quarks, varying from 2 up to 300. Based on
numerical results combined with the result of the perturbation theory we
propose the following picture: When , there is only a trivial fixed
point and therefore the theory in the continuum limit is trivial. On the other
hand, when , there is a non-trivial fixed point and therefore
the theory is non-trivial with anomalous dimensions, however, without quark
confinement. Theories which satisfy both quark confinement and spontaneous
chiral symmetry breaking in the continuum limit exist only for . We
also discuss the structure of the deconfining phase at finite temperatures for
the small number of flavors such as and 3, through a systematic study
of it for general number of flavors.Comment: LaTeX, 7 pages, 10 PS figures, Talk presented at LATTICE96(poster)
and LATTICE96(finite temperature
The QCD spectrum with three quark flavors
We present results from a lattice hadron spectrum calculation using three
flavors of dynamical quarks - two light and one strange, and quenched
simulations for comparison. These simulations were done using a one-loop
Symanzik improved gauge action and an improved Kogut-Susskind quark action. The
lattice spacings, and hence also the physical volumes, were tuned to be the
same in all the runs to better expose differences due to flavor number. Lattice
spacings were tuned using the static quark potential, so as a byproduct we
obtain updated results for the effect of sea quarks on the static quark
potential. We find indications that the full QCD meson spectrum is in better
agreement with experiment than the quenched spectrum. For the 0++ (a0) meson we
see a coupling to two pseudoscalar mesons, or a meson decay on the lattice.Comment: 38 pages, 20 figures, uses epsf. 5/29/01 revision responds to
referee's Comments, changes pion fits and tables, and corrects Fig. 10 and
some minor error
Thermodynamics with 3 and 2+1 Flavors of Improved Staggered Quarks
We present preliminary results from exploring the phase diagram of finite
temperature QCD with three degenerate flavors and with two light flavors and
the mass of the third held approximately at the strange quark mass. We use an
order Symanzik improved gauge action and an order
improved staggered quark action. The improved staggered
action leads to a dispersion relation with diminished lattice artifacts, and
hence better thermodynamic properties. It decreases the flavor symmetry
breaking of staggered quarks substantially, and we estimate that at the
transition temperature for an to lattice {\em all} pions will
be lighter than the lightest kaon. Preliminary results on lattices with
, 6 and 8 are presented.Comment: 3 pages, 6 figures, contribution to Lattice2001(hightemp) August
19--24, 2001, Berlin, German
Semileptonic Decays of D and B Mesons
We report results of our ongoing investigation concerning semileptonic decays
of heavy pseudoscalar mesons into pseudoscalar and vector mesons. Particular
attention is paid to uncertainties in the and the heavy quark mass
dependence of formfactors. Moreover we present a non-perturbative test to the
LMK current renormalization scheme for vector current transition matrix
elements and find remarkable agreement.Comment: 3 pages, uuencoded, contribution to Lat 9
f_B for Various Actions : Approaching the Continuum Limit with Dynamical Fermions
We present results for pseudoscalar decay constants of heavy-light mesons
using both quenched and N_f = 2 dynamical fermion configurations. A variety of
fermion actions is investigated : Wilson, nonperturbative clover, and fat-link
clover. For heavy quarks the Fermilab formalism is applied. In the quenched
approximation, results with the nonperturbatively improved clover action of the
Alpha collaboration allow us to study the systematic error of the continuum
extrapolation from the Wilson action. In addition, we use quenched
configurations to explore the effects of fattening. The lessons from the
quenched analyses are then applied to data with dynamical fermions, where both
Wilson and fat-link clover actions have been used. This allows us to attempt a
continuum extrapolation of the dynamical results.Comment: Lattice 2000 (Heavy Quark Physics). 4 pages, 2 figure
Ambiguities of neutrino(antineutrino) scattering on the nucleon due to the uncertainties of relevant strangeness form factors
Strange quark contributions to neutrino(antineutrino) scattering are
investigated on the nucleon level in the quasi-elastic region. The incident
energy range between 500 MeV and 1.0 GeV is used for the scattering. All of the
physical observable by the scattering are investigated within available
experimental and theoretical results for the strangeness form factors of the
nucleon. In specific, a newly combined data of parity violating electron
scattering and neutrino scattering is exploited. Feasible quantities to be
explored for the strangeness contents are discussed for the application to
neutrino-nucleus scattering.Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures, submit to J. Phys.
Two-Flavor Staggered Fermion Thermodynamics at N_t = 12
We present results of an ongoing study of the nature of the high temperature
crossover in QCD with two light fermion flavors. These results are obtained
with the conventional staggered fermion action at the smallest lattice spacing
to date---approximately 0.1 fm. Of particular interest are a study of the
temperature of the crossover a determination of the induced baryon charge and
baryon susceptibility, the scalar susceptibility, and the chiral order
parameter, used to test models of critical behavior associated with chiral
symmetry restoration. From our new data and published results for N_t = 4, 6,
and 8, we determine the QCD magnetic equation of state from the chiral order
parameter using O(4) and mean field critical exponents and compare it with the
corresponding equation of state obtained from an O(4) spin model and mean field
theory. We also present a scaling analysis of the Polyakov loop, suggesting a
temperature dependent ``constituent quark free energy.''Comment: LaTeX 25 pages, 15 Postscript figure
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