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Perturbative calculation of improvement coefficients to O(g^2a) for bilinear quark operators in lattice QCD
We calculate the O(g^2 a) mixing coefficients of bilinear quark operators in
lattice QCD using a standard perturbative evaluation of on-shell Green's
functions. Our results for the plaquette gluon action are in agreement with
those previously obtained with the Schr\"odinger functional method. The
coefficients are also calculated for a class of improved gluon actions having
six-link terms.Comment: 14 pages, REVTe
Perturbative Renormalization Factors of Bilinear Quark Operators for Improved Gluon and Quark Actions in Lattice QCD
We calculate one-loop renormalization factors of bilinear quark operators for
gluon action including six-link loops and -improved quark action in the
limit of massless quark. We find that finite parts of one-loop coefficients of
renormalization factors diminish monotonically as either of the coefficients
or of the six-link terms are decreased below zero. Detailed
numerical results are given, for general values of the clover coefficient, for
the tree-level improved gluon action in the Symanzik approach and for the choices suggested by Wilson and by Iwasaki and from renormalization-group analyses. Compared with the case of
the standard plaquette gluon action, finite parts of one-loop coefficients are
reduced by 10--20% for the Symanzik action, and approximately by a factor two
for the renormalization-group improved gluon actions.Comment: 19 pages, REVTeX, with 3 epsf figure
Mesonic decay constants in lattice NRQCD
Lattice NRQCD with leading finite lattice spacing errors removed is used to
calculate decay constants of mesons made up of heavy quarks. Quenched
simulations are done with a tadpole improved gauge action containing plaquette
and six-link rectangular terms. The tadpole factor is estimated using the
Landau link. For each of the three values of the coupling constant considered,
quarkonia are calculated for five masses spanning the range from charmonium
through bottomonium, and one set of quark masses is tuned to the B(c).
"Perturbative" and nonperturbative meson masses are compared. One-loop
perturbative matching of lattice NRQCD with continuum QCD for the heavy-heavy
vector and axial vector currents is performed. The data are consistent with the
vector meson decay constants of quarkonia being proportional to the square root
of their mass and the B(c) decay constant being equal to 420(13) MeV.Comment: 25 pages in REVTe
Infinite Volume and Continuum Limits of the Landau-Gauge Gluon Propagator
We extend a previous improved action study of the Landau gauge gluon
propagator, by using a variety of lattices with spacings from to
0.41 fm, to more fully explore finite volume and discretization effects. We
also extend a previously used technique for minimizing lattice artifacts, the
appropriate choice of momentum variable or ``kinematic correction'', by
considering it more generally as a ``tree-level correction''. We demonstrate
that by using tree-level correction, determined by the tree-level behavior of
the action being considered, it is possible to obtain scaling behavior over a
very wide range of momenta and lattice spacings. This makes it possible to
explore the infinite volume and continuum limits of the Landau-gauge gluon
propagator.Comment: 24 pages RevTex, 18 figures; Responses to referee comments, minor
change
The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury. X. Quantifying the Star Cluster Formation Efficiency of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies
We study the relationship between the field star formation and cluster
formation properties in a large sample of nearby dwarf galaxies. We use optical
data from the Hubble Space Telescope and from ground-based telescopes to derive
the ages and masses of the young (t_age < 100Myr) cluster sample. Our data
provides the first constraints on two proposed relationships between the star
formation rate of galaxies and the properties of their cluster systems in the
low star formation rate regime. The data show broad agreement with these
relationships, but significant galaxy-to-galaxy scatter exists. In part, this
scatter can be accounted for by simulating the small number of clusters
detected from stochastically sampling the cluster mass function. However, this
stochasticity does not fully account for the observed scatter in our data
suggesting there may be true variations in the fraction of stars formed in
clusters in dwarf galaxies. Comparison of the cluster formation and the
brightest cluster in our sample galaxies also provide constraints on cluster
destruction models.Comment: 16 pages, 9 figures, Accepted to Ap
Comparison Studies of Finite Momentum Correlators on Anisotropic and Isotropic Lattices
We study hadronic two- and three-point correlators relevant for heavy to
light pseudoscalar meson semi-leptonic decays, using Symanzik improved glue,
D234 light quark and NRQCD heavy quark actions. Detailed comparisons are made
between simulations on anisotropic and isotropic lattices involving finite
momentum hadrons. We find evidence that having an anisotropy helps in
extracting better signals at higher momenta. Initial results for the form
factors f_+(q^2) and f_0(q^2) are presented with tree-level matching of the
lattice heavy-light currents.Comment: 43 pages with 50 postscript figure
Heavy-light mesons with staggered light quarks
We demonstrate the viability of improved staggered light quarks in studies of
heavy-light systems. Our method for constructing heavy-light operators exploits
the close relation between naive and staggered fermions. The new approach is
tested on quenched configurations using several staggered actionsn combined
with nonrelativistic heavy quarks. The B_s meson kinetic mass, the hyperfine
and 1P-1S splittings in B_s, and the decay constant f_{B_s} are calculated and
compared to previous quenched lattice studies. An important technical detail,
Bayesian curve-fitting, is discussed at length.Comment: 38 pages, figures included. v2: Entry in Table IX corrected and other
minor changes, version appearing in Phys. Rev.
Application of the operator product expansion to the short distance behavior of nuclear potentials
We investigate the short distance behavior of nucleon-nucleon (NN) potentials
defined through Bethe-Salpeter wave functions, by perturbatively calculating
anomalous dimensions of 6-quark operators in QCD. Thanks to the asymptotic
freedom of QCD, 1-loop computations give certain exact results for the
potentials in the zero distance limit. In particular the functional form of the
S-state central NN potential at short distance is predicted to be a little
weaker than . On the other hand, due to the intriguing character of the
anomalous dimension spectrum, perturbative considerations alone can not
determine whether this potential is repulsive or attractive at short distances.
A crude estimation suggests that the force at short distance is repulsive, as
found numerically in lattice QCD. A similar behavior is found for the tensor
potential.Comment: 40 pages, no figure
Improved Nonrelativistic QCD for Heavy Quark Physics
We construct an improved version of nonrelativistic QCD for use in lattice
simulations of heavy quark physics, with the goal of reducing systematic errors
from all sources to below 10\%. We develop power counting rules to assess the
importance of the various operators in the action and compute all leading order
corrections required by relativity and finite lattice spacing. We discuss
radiative corrections to tree level coupling constants, presenting a procedure
that effectively resums the largest such corrections to all orders in
perturbation theory. Finally, we comment on the size of nonperturbative
contributions to the coupling constants.Comment: 40 pages, 2 figures (not included), in LaTe
Perturbative Thermodynamics of Lattice QCD with Chiral-Invariant Four-Fermion Interactions
Lattice QCD with additional chiral-invariant four-fermion interactions is
studied at nonzero temperature. Staggered Kogut-Susskind quarks are used. The
four-fermion interactions are implemented by introducing bosonic auxiliary
fields. A mean field treatment of the auxiliary fields is used to calculate the
model's asymptotic scale parameter and perturbative thermodynamics, including
the one-loop gluonic contributions to the energy, entropy, and pressure. In
this approach the calculations reduce to those of ordinary lattice QCD with
massive quarks. Hence, the previous calculations of these quantities in lattice
QCD using massless quarks are generalized to the massive case.Comment: 22 pages, RevTeX, 8 EPS figures, uses epsf.sty and feynmf.st
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