23 research outputs found
Scalar glueball and meson spectroscopy in unquenched lattice QCD with improved staggered quarks
We present results of an exploratory study of singlet scalar states in
unquenched QCD using both glueball and meson operators. Results for non-singlet
non-strange scalar mesons are also presented. We use Asqtad improved staggered
fermions and gauge configurations generated by the MILC collaboration at
lattice spacings of .12 and .09 fm. In this formulation, the glueball mass is
not significantly different from the quenched value at finite lattice spacing.
Significant taste violations are present in the scalar sector. At light quark
masses, decay channels complicate the mass determinations. There is some
evidence that the non-strange singlet meson lies below the non-singlet meson.Comment: Lattice 2005 (hadron spectrum and quark masses), 6 pages, 4 figure
Pseudoscalar singlet physics with staggered fermions
We report on progress in measuring disconnected correlators associated with
pseudoscalar flavor-singlet mesons. This will eventually allow us to compute
the masses of the eta and eta' mesons. Flavor-singlet physics also presents an
interesting test of the staggered fermion formulation, as disconnected
correlators are sensitive to whether the same action governs both sea quarks
and valence quarks. It can also help test the validity of the ``fourth-root
trick'' used in unquenched lattice calculations where the number of flavors
.Comment: Talk presented at Lattice 2005 (Hadron spectrum and quark masses), 6
pages, 3 figure
Glueball mass measurements from improved staggered fermion simulations
We present the first 2+1 flavour spectrum measurements of glueball states
using high statistics simulations with improved staggered fermions. We find a
spectrum consistent with quenched measurements of scalar, pseudoscalar
andtensor glueball states. The measurements were made using 5000 configurations
at a lattice spacing of 0.123 fm and pion mass of 280 MeV and 3000
configurations at 0.092 fm with a pion mass of 360 MeV. We see some evidence of
coupling to 2 pion states. We compare our results with the experimental
glueball candidate spectrum as well as quenched glueball estimates.Comment: 22 pages, 19 figures and 8 tables, minor additions on mixing
post-refere
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
Do we understand the unquenched value of fB?
I review our qualitative understanding of the increase in the value of the B
meson decay constant (fB), when dynamical fermions are included in lattice QCD
calculations.Comment: 4 pages. Talk at UK Phenomenology Workshop on Heavy Flavour and CP
Violation, Durham, 17 - 22 September 2000 (Minor typo fixed
A calculation of the Lepage-Mackenzie scale for the lattice axial and vector currents
We calculate the perturbative scales (q*) for the axial and vector currents
for the Wilson action, with and without tadpole improvement, using Lepage and
Mackenzie's formalism. The scale for the pseudoscalar density (times the mass)
is computed as well. Contrary to naive expectation, tadpole improvement reduces
q* by only a small amount for the operators we consider. We also discuss the
use of a nonperturbative coupling to calculate the perturbative scale.Comment: 13 pages. One postscript figur
Renormalization of the Lattice HQET Isgur-Wise Function
We compute the perturbative renormalization factors required to match to the
continuum Isgur-Wise function, calculated using lattice Heavy Quark Effective
Theory. The velocity, mass, wavefunction and current renormalizations are
calculated for both the forward difference and backward difference actions for
a variety of velocities. Subtleties are clarified regarding tadpole
improvement, regulating divergences, and variations of techniques used in these
renormalizations.Comment: 28 pages, 0 figures, LaTeX. Final version accepted for publication in
Phys. Rev. D. (Minor changes.
A calculation of the parameter in the static limit
We calculate the parameter, relevant for --
mixing, from a lattice gauge theory simulation at . The bottom
quarks are simulated in the static theory, the light quarks with Wilson
fermions. Improved smearing functions produced by a variational technique,
MOST, are used to reduce statistical errors and minimize excited-state
contamination of the ground-state signal. We obtain (statistical) (systematic) which corresponds to
(statistical) (systematic) for
the one-loop renormalization-scheme-independent parameter. The systematic
errors include the uncertainty due to alternative (less favored) treatments of
the perturbatively-calculated mixing coefficients; this uncertainty is at least
as large as residual differences between Wilson-static and clover-static
results. Our result agrees with extrapolations of results from relativistic
(Wilson) heavy quark simulations.Comment: 39 pages (REVTeX) including 10 figures (PostScript); Final version
accepted for publication: Added new section for clarity; Included comparison
to recent results by other groups; slight numerical changes; Essential
conclusions remain the sam
Quenched hadron spectroscopy with improved staggered quark action
We investigate light hadron spectroscopy with an improved quenched staggered
quark action. We compare the results obtained with an improved gauge plus an
improved quark action, an improved gauge plus standard quark action, and the
standard gauge plus standard quark action. Most of the improvement in the
spectroscopy results is due to the improved gauge sector. However, the improved
quark action substantially reduces violations of Lorentz invariance, as
evidenced by the meson dispersion relations.Comment: New references adde