631 research outputs found
The charm quark mass with dynamical fermions
We compute the charm quark mass in lattice QCD and compare different
formulations of the heavy quark, and quenched data to that with dynamical sea
quarks. We take the continuum limit of the quenched data by extrapolating from
three different lattice spacings, and compare to data with two flavours of
dynamical sea quarks with a mass around the strange at the coarsest lattice
spacing. Both the FNAL and ALPHA formalism are used. We find the different
heavy quark formulations have the same continuum limit in the quenched
approximation, and limited evidence that this approximation overestimates the
charm quark mass.Comment: Lattice2004(heavy) 3 pages, 2 figure
The effect of sea quarks on the mass of the charm quark from Lattice QCD
We compute the mass of the charm quark using both quenched and dynamical
lattice QCD calculations. We examine the effects of mass dependent lattice
artifacts by comparing two different formalisms for the heavy quarks. We take
the continuum limit of the charm mass in quenched QCD by extrapolating from
three different lattice spacings. At a fixed lattice spacing, the mass of the
charm quark is compared between quenched QCD and dynamical QCD with a sea quark
mass around strange. In the continuum limit of quenched QCD, we find
m_c(m_c)=1.29(7)(13) GeV. No evidence was seen for unquenching.Comment: Added NP analysis of quenched data, corrected error in PCAC RGI mass,
updated strange quark mass discussion and references, unified notation and
corrected typos. No change in final result. Version accepted for publication
in JHE
Staggered Chiral Perturbation Theory for Heavy-Light Mesons
We incorporate heavy-light mesons into staggered chiral perturbation theory,
working to leading order in 1/m_Q, where m_Q is the heavy quark mass. At first
non-trivial order in the chiral expansion, staggered taste violations affect
the chiral logarithms for heavy-light quantities only through the light meson
propagators in loops. There are also new analytic contributions coming from
additional terms in the Lagrangian involving heavy-light and light mesons.
Using this heavy-light staggered chiral perturbation theory, we perform the
one-loop calculation of the B (or D) meson leptonic decay constant in the
partially quenched and full QCD cases. In our treatment, we assume the validity
both of the "fourth root trick" to reduce four staggered tastes to one, and of
the prescription to represent this trick in the chiral theory by insertions of
factors of 1/4 for each sea quark loop.Comment: 48 pages, 6 figures. v3: Some clarifying comments/caveats added;
typos fixed. Corresponds to published versio
Response to mental health calls: The frontline perspectives of police officers, communicators and administrators
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to examine the lived experiences of frontline police personnel of a mid-sized police service in Southern Ontario. As the prevalence of mental illness increases, so do the calls for assistance to police services. Police officers often find themselves on the frontline and are often the first responders to mental health calls when an individual is in crisis (Wells & Schafer, 2006). With the majority of current research being quantitative in nature, this qualitative study allowed the voice of frontline police personnel to be heard in order to provide a complete picture of police response to mental health calls for service. Furthermore, this study included communications personnel, which are an important group that has often been overlooked in previous studies, but are instrumental in police response to all calls for service. METHODS: The lived experiences of fourteen participants were examined using in-depth, semi-structured interviews with heuristic phenomenology as a guiding theoretical orientation. The participants were placed into one of three groups based on his/her current role within the police service with the total number of participants within the groups as follows: police officers (n = 7), administrators (n = 3) and communicators (n = 4). Four research questions were examined through fifteen interview questions. RESULTS: Upon detailed analysis of the interviews, several themes and subthemes emerged from the data across all groups of participants. Each theme was found to play an important role in in responding to mental health calls. The themes included: (1) Interaction of roles on mental health calls; (2) Challenges relating to mental health calls; (3) Strategies for responding to mental health calls; and (4) Coping and aftermath. Four subthemes emerged relating to challenges when responding to mental health calls: (i) Perceived increase in mental health calls for service; (ii) Lack of training; (iii) Type of training; (iv) The broken system. CONCLUSIONS: Officers and communicators often find themselves as the first responders to individuals suffering from a mental illness who are in crisis. Hopefully this study has created an increased awareness of the role that frontline police personnel play when responding to mental health calls for service, some of the challenges that they face, and their voices will continue to be heard as policy makers and stakeholders make improvements and adjustments to the current system in the future
The mass of the charm quark from unquenched lattice QCD at fixed lattice spacing
We determine the mass of the charm quark () from lattice QCD with two
flavors of dynamical quarks with a mass around the strange quark. We compare
this to a determination in quenched QCD which has the same lattice spacing (0.1
fm). We investigate different formulations of the quark mass, based on the
Vector Ward Identity, PCAC relation and the FNAL heavy quark formalism. Based
on these preliminary results we find no effects due to sea quarks with a mass
around strange.Comment: Presented at 21st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory
(LATTICE 2003), Tsukuba, Japan, 15-19 July, 200
The second moment of the pion's distribution amplitude
We present preliminary results for the second moment of the pion's
distribution amplitude. The lattice formulation and the phenomenological
implications are briefly reviewed, with special emphasis on some subtleties
that arise when the Lorentz group is replaced by the hypercubic group. Having
analysed more than half of the available configurations, the result obtained is
\xi^2_L = 0.06 \pm 0.02.Comment: Lattice 99 (matrix elements), 3 page
The heavy quark's self energy from moving NRQCD on the lattice
We present a calculation of the heavy quark's self energy in moving NRQCD to
one-loop in perturbation theory. Results for the energy shift and external
momentum renormalisation are discussed and compared with non-perturbative
results. We show that the momentum renormalisation is small, which is the
result of a remnant of re-parameterisation invariance on the lattice.Comment: Talk given at Lattice2004(heavy), Fermilab, June 21-26, 200
Hadronic decays from the lattice
I review the lattice QCD approach to determining hadronic decay transitions.
Examples considered include rho to pi pi; b_1 to pi omega; hybrid meson decays
and scalar meson decays. I discuss what lattices can provide to help understand
the composition of hadrons.Comment: 6 pages, presented at QNP06, June 200
Excited B mesons from the lattice
We determine the energies of the excited states of a heavy-light meson
, with a static heavy quark and light quark with mass approximately
that of the strange quark from both quenched lattices and with dynamical
fermions. We are able to explore the energies of orbital excitations up to L=3,
the spin-orbit splitting up to L=2 and the first radial excitation. These mesons will be very narrow if their mass is less than 5775 MeV -- the
threshold. We investigate this in detail and present evidence that the
scalar meson (L=1) will be very narrow and that as many as 6
excited states will have energies close to the threshold and should also
be relatively narrow.Comment: 17 pages, 6 ps figure
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