Spontaneous Breaking of Flavor Symmetry and Parity in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model with Wilson Fermions

We study the lattice \njl~model with two flavors of Wilson fermions in the large $N$ limit, where $N$ is the number of `colors'. For large values of the four-fermion coupling we find a phase in which both, flavor symmetry and parity, are spontaneously broken. In accordance with general expectations there are three massless pions on the phase boundary, but only two of them remain massless inside the broken phase. This is analogous to earlier results obtained in lattice QCD, indicating that this behavior is a very general feature of the Wilson term.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, LATEX, tared and uuencode

Perturbative Determination of Mass Dependent O(a)O(a) Improvement Coefficients for the Vector and Axial Vector Currents with a Relativistic Heavy Quark Action

We carry out a perturbative determination of mass dependent renormalization factors and $O(a)$ improvement coefficients for the vector and axial vector currents with a relativistic heavy quark action, which we have designed to control $m_Qa$ errors by extending the on-shell $O(a)$ improvement program to the case of $m_Q \gg \Lambda_{\rm QCD}$ with $m_Q$ the heavy quark mass. We discuss what kind of improvement operators are required for the heavy-heavy and the heavy-light cases under the condition that the Euclidean rotational symmetry is not retained anymore because of the $m_Qa$ corrections. Our calculation is performed employing the ordinary perturbation theory with the fictitious gluon mass as an infrared regulator. We show that all the improvement coefficients are determined free from infrared divergences. Results of the renormalization factors and the improvement coefficients are presented as a function of $m_Q a$ for various improved gauge actions as well as the plaquette action.Comment: 39 pages, 12 figures as eps-fil

Structure of Critical Lines in Quenched Lattice QCD with the Wilson Quark Action

The structure of critical lines of vanishing pion mass for the Wilson quark action is examined in quenched lattice QCD. The numerical evidence is presented that critical lines spread into five branches beyond beta=5.6-5.7 at zero temperature. It is also shown that critical lines disappear in the deconfined phase for the case of finite temperatures.Comment: 11 pages, Latex, 7 Postscript figures, uses epsf.st

Spontaneous Flavor and Parity Breaking with Wilson Fermions

We discuss the phase diagram of Wilson fermions in the $m_0$--$g^2$ plane for two-flavor QCD. We argue that, as originally suggested by Aoki, there is a phase in which flavor and parity are spontaneously broken. Recent numerical results on the spectrum of the overlap Hamiltonian have been interpreted as evidence against Aoki's conjecture. We show that they are in fact consistent with the presence of a flavor-parity broken ``Aoki phase''. We also show how, as the continuum limit is approached, one can study the lattice theory using the continuum chiral Lagrangian supplemented by additional terms proportional to powers of the lattice spacing. We find that there are two possible phase structures at non-zero lattice spacing: (1) there is an Aoki phase of width $\Delta m_0 \sim a^3$ with two massless Goldstone pions; (2) there is no symmetry breaking, and all three pions have an equal non-vanishing mass of order $a$. Present numerical evidence suggests that the former option is realized for Wilson fermions. Our analysis then predicts the form of the pion masses and the flavor-parity breaking condensate within the Aoki phase. Our analysis also applies for non-perturbatively improved Wilson fermions.Comment: 22 pages, LaTeX, 5 figures (added several references and a comment

One-loop calculation of mass dependent O(a){\cal O}(a) improvement coefficients for the relativistic heavy quarks on the lattice

We carry out the one-loop calculation of mass dependent ${\cal O}(a)$ improvement coefficients in the relativistic heavy quark action recently proposed, employing the ordinary perturbation theory with the fictitious gluon mass as an infrared regulator. We also determine renormalization factors and improvement coefficients for the axial-vector current at the one-loop level. It is shown that the improvement coefficients are infrared finite at the one-loop level if and only if the improvement coefficients in the action are properly tuned at the tree level.Comment: Lattice2003(improve), 3 page

Effects of new physics to the the ρ\rho--parameter in the supersymmetric standard model

The contribution to the $\rho$--parameter of the quark--Higgs sector of the supersymmetric standard model is computed non--perturbatively using the large--\nf expansion for the case tan$\beta$=0. An explicit formula is found for the $\rho$--parameter which is ill-defined unless the triviality cutoff is taken into account. The cutoff dependence of the $\rho$--parameter is found to be large if and only if the top mass is larger than $2v$ so that the cutoff scale is of the order of the electroweak scale. These non--universal effects are the reflections at low energies of the physics beyond the supersymmetric standard model. By also considering the effects of the soft--breaking terms, cutoff effects in both decoupling and non--decoupling effects are analyzed.Comment: 12 pages (5 figs), TIT/HEP-233, harvma

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