Publication Type |
Journal Article |
School or College |
College of Science |
Department |
Physics |
Creator |
DeTar, Carleton |
Other Author |
Bernard, Claude; Fu, Ziwen; Prelovsek, Sasa |
Title |
Scalar meson spectroscopy with lattice staggered fermions |
Date |
2007-11 |
Description |
With sufficiently light up and down quarks the isovector (a0) and isosinglet (f0) scalar meson propagators are dominated at large distance by two-meson states. In the staggered-fermion formulation of lattice quantum chromodynamics, taste-symmetry breaking causes a proliferation of two-meson states that further complicates the analysis of these channels. Many of them are unphysical artifacts of the lattice approximation. They are expected to disappear in the continuum limit. The staggered-fermion fourth-root procedure has its purported counterpart in rooted staggered chiral perturbation theory (rSXPT). Fortunately, the rooted theory provides a strict framework that permits the analysis of scalar meson correlators in terms of only a small number of low-energy couplings. Thus the analysis of the point-to-point scalar meson correlators in this context gives a useful consistency check of the fourth-root procedure and its proposed chiral realization. Through numerical simulation we have measured correlators for both the a0 and f0 channels in the ‘‘Asqtad'' improved staggered-fermion formulation in a lattice ensemble with lattice spacing a = 0.12 fm. We analyze those correlators in the context of rSXPT and obtain values of the low-energy chiral couplings that are reasonably consistent with previous determinations. |
Type |
Text |
Publisher |
American Physical Society |
Journal Title |
Physical Review D |
Volume |
76 |
Issue |
9 |
DOI |
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.094504 |
citatation_issn |
1550-7998 |
Subject |
Staggered fermions; Chiral theory |
Subject LCSH |
Meson spectroscopy; Quantum chromodynamics; Lattice gauge theories; Particles (Nuclear physics); Quarks; Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Chirality |
Language |
eng |
Bibliographic Citation |
Bernard, C., DeTar, C., Fu, Z., & Prelovsek, S. (2007). Scalar meson spectroscopy with lattice staggered fermions. Physical Review D, 76(9), 094504. |
Rights Management |
(c) American Physical Society http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.76.094504 |
Format Medium |
application/pdf |
Format Extent |
299,542 bytes |
Identifier |
ir-main,10249 |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6j68191 |
Setname |
ir_uspace |
ID |
705065 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j68191 |