N. Tsutsui

Light hadron spectroscopy with two flavors of O(a)-improved dynamical quarks

We present a high statistics study of the light hadron spectrum and quark masses in QCD with two flavors of dynamical quarks. Numerical simulations are carried out using the plaquette gauge action and the O(a)-improved Wilson quark action at \beta=5.2, where the lattice spacing is found to be a=0.0887(11)fm from \rho meson mass, on a 20^3\times 48 lattice. At each of five sea quark masses corresponding to m_{PS}/m_{V} \simeq 0.8-0.6, we generate 12000 trajectories using the symmetrically preconditioned Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm. Finite spatial volume effects are investigated employing 12^3 \times 48, 16^3 \times 48 lattices. We also perform a set of simulations in quenched QCD with the same lattice actions at a similar lattice spacing to those for the full QCD runs. In the meson sector we find clear evidence of sea quark effects. The J parameter increases for lighter sea quark masses, and the full QCD meson masses are systematically closer to experiment than in quenched QCD. Careful finite-size studies are made to ascertain that these are not due to finite-size effects. Evidence of sea quark effects is less clear in the baryon sector due to larger finite-size effects. We also calculate light quark masses and find m_{ud}^{MS}(2GeV) =3.223(+0.046/-0.069)MeV and m_s^{MS}(2GeV)=84.5(+12.0/-1.7)MeV which are about 20% smaller than in quenched QCD.

B0−B¯0Mixing in Unquenched Lattice QCD

We present an unquenched lattice calculation for the B(0)-B(0) transition amplitude. The calculation, carried out at an inverse lattice spacing 1/a=2.22(4) GeV, incorporates two flavors of dynamical quarks described by the O(a)-improved Wilson fermion action and heavy quarks described by nonrelativistic QCD. Particular attention is paid to the uncertainty that arises from the chiral extrapolation, especially the effect of pion loops, for light quarks, which we find could be sizable for the leptonic decay constant, whereas it is small for the B parameters. We obtain f(B(d))=191(10)(+12-22) MeV, f(B(s))/f(B(d))=1.13(3)(+13-2), B(B(d))(m(b))=0.836(27)(+56-62), B(B(s))/B(B(d))=1.017(16)(+56-17), and xi=1.14(3)(+13-2), where the first error is statistical, and the second is systematic, including uncertainties due to chiral extrapolation, finite lattice spacing, heavy quark expansion, and perturbative operator matching.

Nucleon decay matrix elements from lattice QCD

We present a model-independent calculation of hadron matrix elements for all dimension-six operators associated with baryon number violating processes using lattice QCD. The calculation is performed with the Wilson quark action in the quenched approximation at

B0-anti-B0 Mixing in Unquenched Lattice QCD

\beta=6/g^2=6.0

Light-quark masses from unquenched lattice QCD

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B meson B-parameters and the decay constant in two-flavor dynamical QCD

28^2\times 48\times 80

Nonperturbative Determination of Quark Masses in Quenched Lattice QCD with the Kogut-Susskind Fermion Action

lattice. Our results cover all the matrix elements required to estimate the partial lifetimes of (proton,neutron)

Nonperturbative O(a) improvement of the Wilson quark action with the renormalization-group-improved gauge action using the Schrödinger functional method

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Polynomial hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm for lattice QCD with an odd number of flavors

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I=2 pion scattering length with the Wilson fermion.

\pi,K,\eta