327 research outputs found
Application of heavy-quark effective theory to lattice QCD: III. Radiative corrections to heavy-heavy currents
We apply heavy-quark effective theory (HQET) to separate long- and
short-distance effects of heavy quarks in lattice gauge theory. In this paper
we focus on flavor-changing currents that mediate transitions from one heavy
flavor to another. We stress differences in the formalism for heavy-light
currents, which are discussed in a companion paper, showing how HQET provides a
systematic matching procedure. We obtain one-loop results for the matching
factors of lattice currents, needed for heavy-quark phenomenology, such as the
calculation of zero-recoil form factors for the semileptonic decays . Results for the Brodsky-Lepage-Mackenzie scale are also
given.Comment: 35 pages, 17 figures. Program LatHQ2QCD to compute matching one-loop
coefficients available at http://theory.fnal.gov/people/kronfeld/LatHQ2QCD
BRST symmetry of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory in Cho--Faddeev--Niemi decomposition
We determine the nilpotent BRST and anti-BRST transformations for the
Cho--Faddeev-Niemi variables for the SU(2) Yang-Mills theory based on the new
interpretation given in the previous paper of the Cho--Faddeev-Niemi
decomposition. This gives a firm ground for performing the BRST quantization of
the Yang--Mills theory written in terms of the Cho--Faddeev-Niemi variables. We
propose also a modified version of the new Maximal Abelian gauge which could
play an important role in the reduction to the original Yang-Mills theory.Comment: 11 pages, no figure; Introduction improved, 3 references adde
Remarks on abelian dominance
We used a renormalisation group based smoothing to address two questions
related to abelian dominance. Smoothing drastically reduces short distance
fluctuations but it preserves the long distance physical properties of the
SU(2) configurations. This enabled us to extract the abelian heavy-quark
potential from time-like Wilson loops on Polyakov gauge projected
configurations. We obtained a very small string tension which is inconsistent
with the string tension extracted from Polyakov loop correlators. This shows
that the Polyakov gauge projected abelian configurations do not have a
consistent physical meaning. We also applied the smoothing on SU(2)
configurations to test how sensitive abelian dominance in the maximal abelian
gauge is to the short distance fluctuations. We found that on smoothed SU(2)
configurations the abelian string tension was about 30% smaller than the SU(2)
string tension which was unaffected by smoothing. This suggests that the
approximate abelian dominance found with the Wilson action is probably an
accident and it has no fundamental physical relevance.Comment: 13 pages, LaTeX, 3 eps figure
Application of heavy-quark effective theory to lattice QCD: II. Radiative corrections to heavy-light currents
We apply heavy-quark effective theory to separate long- and short-distance
effects of heavy quarks in lattice gauge theory. In this approach, the inverse
heavy-quark mass and the lattice spacing are treated as short distances, and
their effects are lumped into short-distance coefficients. We show how to use
this formalism to match lattice gauge theory to continuum QCD, order by order
in the heavy-quark expansion. In this paper, we focus on heavy-light currents.
In particular, we obtain one-loop results for the matching factors of lattice
currents, needed for heavy-quark phenomenology, such as the calculation of
heavy-light decay constants, and heavy-to-light transition form factors.
Results for the Brodsky-Lepage-Mackenzie scale are also given.Comment: 32 pages, 8 figures. v2 corrects Eqs. (4.9) and (4.10) and adds a
reference. Program LatHQ2QCD to compute matching one-loop coefficients
available at http://theory.fnal.gov/people/kronfeld/LatHQ2QCD
Abelian Dominance of Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Lattice QCD
Calculations of the chiral condensate on the lattice using staggered fermions
and the Lanczos algorithm are presented. Four gauge fields are considered: the
quenched non-Abelian field, an Abelian projected field, and monopole and photon
fields further decomposed from the Abelian field. Abelian projection is
performed in maximal Abelian gauge and in Polyakov gauge. The results show that
monopoles in maximal Abelian gauge largely reproduce the chiral condensate
values of the full non-Abelian theory, in both SU(2) and SU(3) color.Comment: 13 pages in RevTex including 6 figures, uucompressed, self-extractin
Temperature Dependence of Extended and Fractional SU(3) Monopole Currents
We examine in pure SU(3) the dependence of extended monopole current k and
cross-species extended monopole current k^{cross} on temperature t, monopole
size L, and fractional monopole charge 1/q. We find that features of both k and
k^{cross} are sensitive to t for a range of L and q. In particular, the
spatial-temporal asymmetry ratios of both k and k^{cross} are sensitive over a
range of L and q to the SU(3) deconfinement transition. The motivation for
studying cross, extended, and fractional monopoles in SU(3) is given.Comment: 15 pages (archiving final publication version; very minor revisions
Towards an Abelian Formulation of Lattice QCD Confinement
We probe for operators occurring in the APQCD(``abelian-projected QCD'')
action by evaluating abelian-projected -plaquette spectral densities in pure
gauge fixed to maximal abelian gauge. Couplings are
extracted from the spectral densities for each representation ,
plaquette. While APQCD is dominated by a resonance, we also find
evidence for weakly coupled plaquettes. Moreover, since even if , plaquettes must be
significant since APQCD is confining.Comment: 1+11 pages, fixed minor postscript erro
The Perturbative Pole Mass in QCD
It is widely believed that the pole mass of a quark is infrared-finite and
gauge-independent to all orders in perturbation theory. This seems not to have
been proved in the literature. A proof is provided here.Comment: 12 pages REVTeX with 2 figures; archiving published version with note
and references added. If you thought this was proven long ago see
http://www-theory.fnal.gov/people/ask/TeX/mPole
Abelian Monopoles in SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory as Physical Objects
By numerical calculations we show that the abelian monopole currents are
locally correlated with the density of SU(2) lattice action. The correlations
are larger by the order of magnitude in the maximal abelian projection than in
the projections which correspond to the diagonalization of Polyakov line and to
the diagonalization of the plaquette. These facts show that (at least) in the
maximal abelian projection the monopoles are the physical objects, they carry
the SU(2) action. The larger value of \beta, the larger the relative action
carried by monopole. Calculations on the asymmetric lattice show that this
correlation exists also in the deconfinement phase of gluodynamics.Comment: 6 pages, RevTeX, 3 figures, uses epsf.sty; to be published in
Phys.Rev.Lett., replaced to match version accepted for publicatio
Effective Monopole Potential for SU(2) Lattice Gluodynamics in Spatial Maximal Abelian Gauge
We investigate the dual superconductor hypothesis in finite-temperature SU(2)
lattice gluodynamics in the Spatial Maximal Abelian gauge. This gauge is more
physical than the ordinary Maximal Abelian gauge due to absence of
non-localities in temporal direction. We show numerically that in the Spatial
Maximal Abelian gauge the probability distribution of the abelian monopole
field is consistent with the dual superconductor mechanism of confinement: the
abelian condensate vanishes in the deconfinement phase and is not zero in the
confinement phase.Comment: LaTeX2e, 8 pages with 3 EPS figures, uses epsf.st
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