T. Yoshié

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.

Physical Point Simulation in 2+1 Flavor Lattice QCD

We present the results of the physical point simulation in 2+1 flavor lattice QCD with the nonperturbatively O(a)-improved Wilson quark action and the Iwasaki gauge action at {beta} = 1.9 on a 32{sup 3} x 64 lattice. The physical quark masses together with the lattice spacing is determined with m{sub {pi}}, m{sub K} and m{sub {Omega}} as physical inputs. There are two key algorithmic ingredients to make possible the direct simulation at the physical point: One is the mass-preconditioned domain-decomposed HMC algorithm to reduce the computational cost. The other is the reweighting technique to adjust the hopping parameters exactly to the physical point. The physics results include the hadron spectrum, the quark masses and the pseudoscalar meson decay constants. The renormalization factors are nonperturbatively evaluated with the Schroedinger functional method. The results are compared with the previous ones obtained by the chiral extrapolation method.

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.

ρ meson decay in 2+1 flavor lattice QCD

(PACS-CS Collaboration) 1 Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan 2 Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan 3 Department of Physics, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan 4 RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan 5 Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan (Dated: November 28, 2011)

B0-anti-B0 Mixing 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.

Phase structure of lattice QCD for general number of flavors

We investigate the phase structure of lattice QCD for general number of flavors

Precise determination of the strong coupling constant in Nf = 2+1 lattice QCD with the Schrödinger functional scheme

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Light-quark masses from unquenched lattice QCD

. Based on numerical results combined with the result of the perturbation theory we propose the following picture: When

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

N_F \ge 17

SU(2) and SU(3) chiral perturbation theory analyses on baryon masses in 2 + 1 flavor lattice QCD

, there is only a trivial fixed point and therefore the theory in the continuum limit is trivial. On the other hand, when