44 research outputs found
Light Quark Physics with Dynamical Wilson Fermions
We present results for spectroscopy, quark masses and decay constants
obtained from SESAM's and TkL's large statistics simulations of QCD with two
dynamical Wilson fermions.Comment: 3 pages; to appear in the proceedings of Lat.'9
Glueballs and string breaking from full QCD
We present results on the static potential, and torelon and glueball masses
from simulations of QCD with two flavours of dynamical Wilson fermions on
and lattices at .Comment: Talk presented by Gunnar Bali at International Symposium on Lattice
Field Theories (Lattice 97), Edinburgh, July 1997, 3 pages LaTeX
(epscrc2.sty) with 4 eps figure
The associations between mental health and environmental factors in New Zealand: A region-based analytical study
INTRODUCTION: Connections between environmental factors and mental health issues have been postulated in many different countries around the world. Previously undertaken research has shown many possible connections between these fields, especially in relation to air quality and extreme weather events. However, research on this subject is lacking in New Zealand, which is difficult to analyse as an overall nation due to its many micro-climates and regional differences.OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study and subsequent analysis is to explore the associations between environmental factors and poor mental health outcomes in New Zealand by region and predict the number of people with mental health-related illnesses corresponding to the environmental influence.METHODS: Data are collected from various public-available sources, e.g., Stats NZ and Coronial services of New Zealand, which comprised four environmental factors of our interest and two mental health indicators data ranging from 2016 up until 2020. The four environmental factors are air pollution, earthquakes, rainfall and temperature. Two mental health indicators include the number of people seen by District Health Boards (DHBs) for mental health reasons and the statistics on suicide deaths. The initial analysis is carried out on which regions were most affected by the chosen environmental factors. Further analysis using Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average(ARIMA) creates a model based on time series of environmental data to generate estimation for the next two years and mental health projected from the ridge regression.RESULTS: In our initial analysis, the environmental data was graphed along with mental health outcomes in regional charts to identify possible associations. Different regions of New Zealand demonstrate quite different relationships between the environmental data and mental health outcomes. The result of later analysis predicts that the suicide rate and DHB mental health visits may increase in Wellington, drop-in Hawke's Bay and slightly increase in Canterbury for the year 2021 and 2022 with different environmental factors considered.CONCLUSION: It is evident that the relationship between environmental and mental health factors is regional and not national due to the many micro-climates that exist around the nation. However, it was observed that not all factors displayed a good relationship between the regions. We conclude that our hypotheses were partially correct, in that increased air pollution was found to correlate to increased mental health-related DHB visits. Rainfall was also highly correlated to some mental health outcomes. Higher levels of rainfall reduced DHB visits and suicide rates in some areas of the country
Critical Dynamics of the Hybrid Monte Carlo Algorithm
We investigate the critical dynamics of the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm
approaching the chiral limit of standard Wilson fermions. Our observations are
based on time series of lengths O(5000) for a variety of observables. The
lattice sizes are 16^3 x 32 and 24^3 x 40. We work at beta=5.6, and
kappa=0.156, 0.157, 0.1575, 0.158, with 0.83 > m_pi/m_rho > 0.55. We find
surprisingly small integrated autocorrelation times for local and extended
observables. The dynamical critical exponent of the exponential
autocorrelation time is compatible with 2. We estimate the total computational
effort to scale between V^2 and V^2.25 towards the chiral limit.Comment: 3 pages, Latex with espcrc2.sty and postscript figures, Talk given at
Lattice 9
Scanning the Topological Sectors of the QCD Vacuum with Hybrid Monte Carlo
We address a long standing issue and determine the decorrelation efficiency
of the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm (HMC), for full QCD with Wilson fermions,
with respect to vacuum topology. On the basis of five state-of-the art QCD
vacuum field ensembles (with 3000 to 5000 trajectories each and
m_pi/m_rho-ratios in the regime >0.56, for two sea quark flavours) we are able
to establish, for the first time, that HMC provides sufficient tunneling
between the different topological sectors of QCD. This will have an important
bearing on the prospect to determine, by lattice techniques, the topological
susceptibility of the vacuum, and topology sensitive quantities like the spin
content of the proton, or the eta' mass.Comment: 5 pages, 4 eps-figure
On the low fermionic eigenmode dominance in QCD on the lattice
We demonstrate the utility of a spectral approximation to fermion loop
operators using low-lying eigenmodes of the hermitian Dirac-Wilson matrix, Q.
The investigation is based on a total of 400 full QCD vacuum configurations,
with two degenerate flavors of dynamical Wilson fermions at beta =5.6, at two
different sea quark masses. The spectral approach is highly competitive for
accessing both topological charge and disconnected diagrams, on large lattices
and small quark masses. We propose suitable partial summation techniques that
provide sufficient saturation for estimating Tr Q^{-1}, which is related to the
topological charge. In the effective mass plot of the eta' meson we achieved a
consistent early plateau formation, by ground state projecting the connected
piece of its propagator.Comment: 15 pages, 25 figures, citations adde
SESAM and TXL Results for Wilson Action--A Status Report
Results from two studies of full QCD with two flavours of dynamical Wilson
fermions are presented. At beta=5.6, the region 0.83 > m_pi/m_rho > 0.56 at
m_pia > 0.23 L^{-1} is explored. The SESAM collaboration has generated
ensembles of about 200 statistically independent configurations on a 16^3 x
32-lattice at three different kappa-values and is entering the final phase of
data analysis. The TXL simulation on a 24^3 x 40-lattice at two kappa-values
has reached half statistics and data analysis has started recently, hence most
results presented here are preliminary. The focus of this report is fourfold:
we demonstrate that algorithmic improvements like fast Krylov solvers and
parallel preconditioning recently introduced can be put into practise in full
QCD simulations, we present encouraging observations as to the critical
dynamics of the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm in the approach to the chiral
limit, we mention signal improvements of noisy estimator techniques for
disconnected diagrams to the pi-N sigma term, and we report on SESAM's results
for light hadron spectrum, light quark masses, and heavy quarkonia.Comment: 24 pages, tex + postscript figures, to appear in Proceedings of Int.
Workshop "Lattice QCD on Parallel Computers", University of Tsukuba, Japa
Flavor Singlet Axial Vector Coupling of the Proton with Dynamical Wilson Fermions
We present the results of a full QCD lattice calculation of the flavor
singlet axial vector coupling of the proton. The simulation has been
carried out on a lattice at with dynamical
Wilson fermions. It turns out that the statistical quality of the connected
contribution to is excellent, whereas the disconnected part is
accessible but suffers from large statistical fluctuations. Using a 1st order
tadpole improved renormalization constant , we estimate .Comment: 13 pages, 5 eps figures, minor changes to text and citation
The Pion-Nucleon sigma-Term with Dynamical Wilson Fermions
We calculate connected and disconnected contributions to the flavour singlet
scalar density amplitude of the nucleon in a full QCD lattice simulation with
dynamical Wilson fermions at on a lattice.
We find that both contributions are of similar size at the light quark mass. We
arrive at the estimate MeV. Its smallness is directly
related to the apparent decrease of , quark masses when unquenching QCD
lattice simulations. The parameter can be estimated from a semi-quenched
analysis, in which there are no strange quarks in the sea, the result being
.}Comment: Final version, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D, minor
changes to the text, 1 new figure, 17 page
Alpha_S from Upsilon Spectroscopy with Dynamical Wilson Fermions
We estimate the QCD coupling constant from a lattice calculation of the
bottomonium spectrum. The second order perturbative expansion of the plaquette
expectation value is employed to determine alpha_S at a scale set by the 2S-1S
and 1P-1S level splittings. The latter are computed in NRQCD in a dynamical
gauge field background with two degenerate flavours of Wilson quarks at
intermediate masses and extrapolated to the chiral limit. Combining the N_f=2
result with the quenched result at equal lattice spacing we extrapolate to the
physical number of light flavours to find a value of alpha_{\bar MS}^{(5)}(m_Z)
= 0.1118(17). The error quoted covers both statistical and systematic
uncertainties in the scale determination. An additional 5% uncertainty comes
from the choice of the underlying sea quark formulation and from truncation
errors in perturbative expansions.Comment: 25 pages, 5 eps figures, revte