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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
Towards measuring the eta' mass with N_f=2+1 staggered fermions
Because the propagators of flavor-singlet states incorporate disconnected
diagrams, they are uniquely sensitive to any differences in the actions
governing sea and valence fermions on the lattice. As such, they present an
important test of the validity of the ``fourth-root trick'' in the staggered
fermion formulation. The pseudoscalar's relationship to topological charge also
makes it of theoretical interest. We present preliminary results from our
measurements of flavor-singlet pseudoscalar mesons on 2+1 flavor Asqtad
lattices, and discuss some strategies for improving the signal-to-error ratio
of disconnected singlet correlators.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, to appear in proceedings of Computational Hadron
Physics, Nicosia, Cyprus, 14-17 Sep 200