The axial couplings of the low lying baryons are evaluated using a total of
five ensembles of dynamical twisted mass fermion gauge configurations. The
simulations are performed using the Iwasaki gauge action and two degenerate
flavors of light quarks, and a strange and a charm quark fixed to approximately
their physical values at two values of the coupling constant. The lattice
spacings, determined using the nucleon mass, are a=0.082 fm and a=0.065 fm
and the simulations cover a pion mass in the range of about 210 MeV to 430 MeV.
We study the dependence of the axial couplings on the pion mass in the range of
about 210 MeV to 430 MeV as well as the SU(3) breaking effects as we decrease
the light quark mass towards its physical value.Comment: 34 pages, 17 figure