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Update on the hadron spectrum with two flavors of staggered quarks
We present an update on the MILC Collaboration's light hadron spectrum
calculation with two flavors of dynamical, staggered quarks. We present
extrapolations of the nucleon to rho mass ratio to the continuum limit for
fixed values of the pi to rho mass ratio including the physical one.Comment: 3 pages, LaTex with espcrc2 and epsf, 5 postscript figures included,
Lattice '97 Proceeding
Meson Matrix Elements from Various Heavy Quark Effective Theories
Various properties of heavy-light mesons are determined, including decay
constants, the -parameter, and the Isgur-Wise function. The heavy
(bottom) quark is simulated with the static, NRQCD and/or (fixed-velocity)
lattice-HQET effective theories, using optimally-smeared sources as produced by
the ``Maximal Operator Smearing Technique''.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of the Lattice '95 conference. 4 pages,
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Lattice HQET Calculation of the Isgur-Wise Function
We calculate the Isgur-Wise function on the lattice, simulating the light
quark with the Wilson action and the heavy quark with a direct lattice
implementation of the heavy-quark effective theory. Improved smearing functions
produced by a variational technique, MOST, are used to reduce the statistical
errors and to minimize excited-state contamination of the ground-state signal.
Calculating the required matching factors, we obtain for
the slope of the Isgur-Wise function in continuum-HQET in the \barMS scheme
at a scale of GeV.Comment: 3 Pages, LaTeX, Poster at Lattice '9
NRQCD and Static Systems -- A General Variational Approach
We present initial results from Monte Carlo simulations of NRQCD-light,
static-light, and NRQCD-NRQCD mesons, using a variational technique (MOST), as
part of our ongoing calculation of the decay constant. The basis states
for the variational calculation are quark-antiquark operators separated by all
possible relative distances not equivalent under the cubic group (for example,
for a lattice there are 286 operators). The efficacy of the method is
demonstrated by the good plateaus obtained for the ground state and the clean
extraction of the wave functions of the ground and first radially excited
state.Comment: Contribution to the Lattice '94 conference, 3 pages,
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Light hadron spectrum---MILC results with the Kogut-Susskind and Wilson actions
We present the current status of our ongoing calculations of the light hadron
spectrum with both Kogut-Susskind (KS) and Wilson quarks in the valence or
quenched approximation. We discuss KS quarks first and find that the chiral
extrapolation is potentially the biggest source of systematic error. For the
Wilson case, we focus on finite volume and source size effects at 6/g^2=5.7. We
find no evidence to support the claim that there is a finite volume effect
between N_s=16 and 24 of approximately 5%.Comment: 11 pages, 11 figures, LaTeX, uses espcrs2, epsf, Invited talk
presented by S. Gottlieb at Lattice QCD on Parallel Computers, University of
Tsukuba, March, 1997, to appear in the proceeding
Development of the ISS EMU SPEEDR
The Self Powered EVA EMU Data Recorder (SPEEDR) is an FPGA (Field-programmable gate array) based device designed to collect high-rate EMU (Extravehicular Mobility Unit) PLSS (Primary Life Support Subsystem) data for download at a later time. The existing EMU PLSS data down-link capability during EVA is one data packet every 2 minutes and is subject to bad packets or loss of signal. High-rate PLSS data is generated by the ECWS (Enhanced Caution and Warning System) but is not normally captured or distributed. Access to high-rate data will increase the capability of EMU anomaly resolution team to pinpoint issues remotely, saving crew time by reducing required call-down Q&A and on-orbit diagnostic activities. With no Shuttle flights post FY11, and potentially limited down-mass capability, the ISS crew and ground support personnel will have to be capable of on-orbit operations to maintain, diagnose, repair, and return to service EMU hardware, possibly through 2028. Collecting high-rate EMU PLSS data during both IVA (Intravehicular Activity) and EVA (Extravehicular Activity) operations will provide trending analysis for life extension and/or predictive performance. The SPEEDR concept has generated interest as a tool/technology that could be used for other ISS subsystems or future exploration-class space suits where hardware reliability/availability is critical and low/variable bandwidth may require "store then forward" methodology. Preliminary work in FY11 produced a functional prototype consisting of an FPGA evaluation board, custom memory/interface circuit board, and custom software. The SPEEDR concept includes a stand-alone battery that is recharged by a computer USB (Universal Serial Bus) port while data is being downloaded
A Study of the Static-Light Parameter
We calculate the parameter, relevant for --
mixing, from a lattice gauge theory simulation using the static approximation
for the heavy quark and the Wilson action for the light quark and gauge fields.
Improved sources, produced by an optimized variational technique, {\sc most},
reduce statistical errors and minimize excited-state contamination of the
ground-state signal. Renormalization of four-fermion operator coefficients,
using the Lepage-Mackenzie procedure for estimating typical momentum scales, is
linearized to reduce order uncertainties.Comment: 4 pages (LaTeX), Talk presented at LATTICE96(heavy quarks), Minor
numerically-insignificant changes made and reference adde
Lattice results for the decay constant of heavy-light vector mesons
We compute the leptonic decay constants of heavy-light vector mesons in the
quenched approximation. The reliability of lattice computations for heavy
quarks is checked by comparing the ratio of vector to pseudoscalar decay
constant with the prediction of Heavy Quark Effective Theory in the limit of
infinitely heavy quark mass. Good agreement is found. We then calculate the
decay constant ratio for B mesons: .
We also quote quenched MeV.Comment: 11 pages, 3 postscript figs., revtex; two references adde
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