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A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. DeTar; W. Freeman; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. E. Hetrick; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; M. Oktay; J. Osborn; R. L. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water
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We report on the status of a program of generating and using configurations with four flavors of dynamical quarks, using the HISQ action. We study the lattice spacing dependence of physical quantities in these simulations, using runs at several lattice spacings, but with the light quark mass held fixed at two tenths of the strange quark mass. We find that the lattice artifacts in the HISQ simulations are much smaller than those in the asqtad simulations at the same lattice spacings and quark...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.1265v1
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Jun 28, 2018
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MILC Collaboration; S. Basak; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. DeTar; E. Freeland; J. Foley; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. Komijani; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; R. Li; J. Osborn; R. L. Sugar; A. Torok; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water; R. Zhou
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For some time, the MILC Collaboration has been studying electromagnetic effects on light mesons. These calculations use fully dynamical QCD, but only quenched photons, which suffices to NLO in XPT. That is, the sea quarks are electrically neutral, while the valence quarks carry charge. For the photons we use the non-compact formalism. We have new results with lattice spacing as small as 0.045 fm and a large range of volumes. We consider how well chiral perturbation theory describes these...
Topics: High Energy Physics - Lattice, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04997
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Jun 30, 2018
06/18
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A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. Bouchard; C. DeTar; D. Du; A. X. El-Khadra; J. Foley; E. D. Freeland; E. Gámiz; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. Kim; J. Komijani; A. S. Kronfeld; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; P. B. Mackenzie; D. Mohler; E. T. Neil; M. B. Oktay; S. Qiu; J. N. Simone; R. L. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water; R. Zhou
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We present a study of the $D$ and $B$ leptonic decay constants on the MILC $N_f=2+1$ asqtad gauge ensembles using asqtad-improved staggered light quarks and clover heavy quarks in the Fermilab interpretation. Our previous analysis \cite{Bazavov:2011aa} computed the decay constants at lattice spacings $a \approx 0.14, 0.11$ and $0.083$ fm. We have extended the simulations to finer $a \approx 0.058$ and $0.043$ fm lattice spacings, and have also increased statistics; this allows us to address...
Topic: High Energy Physics - Lattice
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.6796
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Jun 30, 2018
06/18
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A. Bazavov; Tanmoy Bhattacharya; C. DeTar; H. -T. Ding; Steven Gottlieb; Rajan Gupta; P. Hegde; U. M. Heller; F. Karsch; E. Laermann; L. Levkova; Swagato Mukherjee; P. Petreczky; C. Schmidt; C. Schroeder; R. A. Soltz; W. Soeldner; R. Sugar; M. Wagner; P. Vranas
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We present results for the equation of state in (2+1)-flavor QCD using the highly improved staggered quark action and lattices with temporal extent $N_{\tau}=6,~8,~10$, and $12$. We show that these data can be reliably extrapolated to the continuum limit and obtain a number of thermodynamic quantities and the speed of sound in the temperature range $(130-400)$ MeV. We compare our results with previous calculations, and provide an analytic parameterization of the pressure, from which other...
Topics: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Lattice, Nuclear Theory
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6387
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Jun 29, 2018
06/18
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A. Bazavov; N. Brambilla; H. -T. Ding; P. Petreczky; H. -P. Schadler; A. Vairo; J. H. Weber
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We study the free energy of a static quark in QCD with 2+1 flavors in a wide temperature region, 116 MeV $ < T < $ 5814 MeV, using the highly improved staggered quark (HISQ) action. We analyze the transition region in detail, obtain the entropy of a static quark, show that it peaks at temperatures close to the chiral crossover temperature and also revisit the temperature dependence of the Polyakov loop susceptibilities using gradient flow. We discuss the implications of our findings for...
Topics: High Energy Physics - Theory, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Lattice,...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06637
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Sep 22, 2013
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A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. Bouchard; C. DeTar; D. Du; A. X. El-Khadra; J. Foley; E. D. Freeland; E. Gamiz; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. E. Hetrick; J. Kim; A. S. Kronfeld; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; M. Lightman; P. B. Mackenzie; E. T. Neil; M. Oktay; J. N. Simone; R. L. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water; R. Zhou; for the Fermilab Lattice Collaboration; for the MILC Collaboration
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We present preliminary results for light, strange and charmed pseudoscalar meson physics from simulations using four flavors of dynamical quarks with the highly improved staggered quark (HISQ) action. These simulations include lattice spacings ranging from 0.15 to 0.06 fm, and sea-quark masses both above and at their physical value. The major results are charm meson decay constants f_D, f_{D_s} and f_{D_s}/f_D and ratios of quark masses. This talk will focus on our procedures for finding the...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8431v1
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Sep 19, 2013
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A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. DeTar; X. Du; W. Freeman; Steven Gottlieb; Urs M. Heller; J. E. Hetrick; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; M. B. Oktay; J. Osborn; R. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water
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We present the latest preliminary results of the MILC collaboration's analysis of the light pseudoscalar meson sector. The analysis includes data from new ensembles with smaller lattice spacings, smaller light quark masses and lighter-than-physical strange quark masses. Both SU(2) and SU(3) chiral fits, including NNLO chiral logarithms, are shown. We give results for decay constants, quark masses, Gasser-Leutwyler low energy constants, and condensates in the two- and three-flavor chiral limits.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2966v1
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Sep 21, 2013
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Jon A. Bailey; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. M. Bouchard; C. DeTar; A. X. El-Khadra; E. D. Freeland; E. Gámiz; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. E. Hetrick; A. S. Kronfeld; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; P. B. Mackenzie; M. B. Oktay; J. N. Simone; R. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water
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We present an update of our calculation of the form factor for B -> D* l nu at zero recoil, with higher statistics and finer lattices. As before, we use the Fermilab action for b and c quarks, the asqtad staggered action for light valence quarks, and the MILC ensembles for gluons and light quarks (L\"uscher-Weisz married to 2+1 rooted staggered sea quarks). In this update, we have reduced the total uncertainty on F(1) from 2.6% to 1.7%. At Lattice2010 we presented a still-blinded...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2166v1
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Sep 22, 2013
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MILC collaboration; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. DeTar; W. Freeman; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. E. Hetrick; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; M. Oktay; J. Osborn; R. L. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water
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We study the lattice spacing dependence, or scaling, of physical quantities using the highly improved staggered quark (HISQ) action introduced by the HPQCD/UKQCD collaboration, comparing our results to similar simulations with the asqtad fermion action. Results are based on calculations with lattice spacings approximately 0.15, 0.12 and 0.09 fm, using four flavors of dynamical HISQ quarks. The strange and charm quark masses are near their physical values, and the light-quark mass is set to 0.2...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.0342v2
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Jun 29, 2018
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A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. M. Bouchard; C. C. Chang; C. DeTar; Daping Du; A. X. El-Khadra; E. D. Freeland; E. Gamiz; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; A. S. Kronfeld; J. Laiho; P. B. Mackenzie; E. T. Neil; J. Simone; R. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water; Ran Zhou
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We calculate---for the first time in three-flavor lattice QCD---the hadronic matrix elements of all five local operators that contribute to neutral $B^0$- and $B_s$-meson mixing in and beyond the Standard Model. We present a complete error budget for each matrix element and also provide the full set of correlations among the matrix elements. We also present the corresponding bag parameters and their correlations, as well as specific combinations of the mixing matrix elements that enter the...
Topics: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Lattice
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03560
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Jun 29, 2018
06/18
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Y. Meurice; A. Bazavov; Shan-Wen Tsai; J. Unmuth-Yockey; Li-Ping Yang; Jin Zhang
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We discuss the reformulation of the O(2) model with a chemical potential and the Abelian Higgs model on a 1+1 dimensional space-time lattice using the Tensor Renormalization Group (TRG) method. The TRG allows exact blocking and connects smoothly the classical Lagrangian approach to the quantum Hamiltonian approach. We calculate the entanglement entropy in the superfluid phase of the O(2) model and show that it approximately obeys the logarithmic Calabrese-Cardy scaling obtained from Conformal...
Topic: High Energy Physics - Lattice
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1611.08711
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Jun 30, 2018
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A. Bazavov; H. -T. Ding; P. Hegde; O. Kaczmarek; F. Karsch; E. Laermann; Y. Maezawa; Swagato Mukherjee; H. Ohno; P. Petreczky; C. Schmidt; S. Sharma; W. Soeldner; M. Wagner
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We compare lattice QCD results for appropriate combinations of net strangeness fluctuations and their correlations with net baryon number fluctuations with predictions from two hadron resonance gas (HRG) models having different strange hadron content. The conventionally used HRG model based on experimentally established strange hadrons fails to describe the lattice QCD results in the hadronic phase close to the QCD crossover. Supplementing the conventional HRG with additional, experimentally...
Topics: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Lattice, Nuclear Theory
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.6511
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Jun 29, 2018
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MILC Collaboration; S. Basak; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. DeTar; E. Freeland; J. Foley; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. Komijani; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; J. Osborn; R. L. Sugar; A. Torok; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water; R. Zhou
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The MILC Collaboration has completed production running of electromagnetic effects on light mesons using asqtad improved staggered quarks. In these calculations, we use quenched photons in the noncompact formalism. We study four lattice spacings from $\approx\!0.12\:$fm to $\approx\!0.045\:$fm. To study finite-volume effects, we used six spatial lattice sizes $L/a=12$, 16, 20, 28, 40, and 48, at $a\!\approx\!0.12\:$fm. We update our preliminary values for the correction to Dashen's theorem...
Topics: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Lattice
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01228
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Jun 30, 2018
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Jon A. Bailey; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. M. Bouchard; C. DeTar; Daping Du; A. X. El-Khadra; J. Foley; E. D. Freeland; E. Gamiz; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; A. S. Kronfeld; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; P. B. Mackenzie; E. T. Neil; Si-Wei Qiu; J. Simone; R. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water; Ran Zhou
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We compute the zero-recoil form factor for the semileptonic decay $\bar{B}^0\to D^{*+}\ell^-\bar{\nu}$ (and modes related by isospin and charge conjugation) using lattice QCD with three flavors of sea quarks. We use an improved staggered action for the light valence and sea quarks (the MILC \asqtad\ configurations), and the Fermilab action for the heavy quarks. Our calculations incorporate higher statistics, finer lattice spacings, and lighter quark masses than our 2008 work. As a byproduct of...
Topics: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Lattice
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.0635
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Jun 29, 2018
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J. Komijani; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; N. Brambilla; N. Brown; C. DeTar; D. Du; A. X. El-Khadra; E. D. Freeland; E. Gámiz; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; A. S. Kronfeld; J. Laiho; P. B. Mackenzie; C. Monahan; Heechang Na; E. T. Neil; J. N. Simone; R. L. Sugar; D. Toussaint; A. Vairo; R. S. Van de Water
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We present a progress report on our calculation of the decay constants $f_B$ and $f_{B_s}$ from lattice-QCD simulations with highly-improved staggered quarks. Simulations are carried out with several heavy valence-quark masses on $(2+1+1)$-flavor ensembles that include charm sea quarks. We include data at six lattice spacings and several light sea-quark masses, including an approximately physical-mass ensemble at all but the smallest lattice spacing, 0.03 fm. This range of parameters provides...
Topics: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Lattice
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1611.07411
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Jun 28, 2018
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Fermilab Lattice; MILC Collaborations; :; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. Bouchard; N. Brown; C. DeTar; D. Du; A. X. El-Khadra; E. D. Freeland; E. Gámiz; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. Komijani; A. S. Kronfeld; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; P. B. Mackenzie; C. Monahan; T. Primer; Heechang Na; E. T. Neil; J. N. Simone; R. L. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water; R. Zhou
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We give a progress report on a project aimed at a high-precision calculation of the decay constants $f_B$ and $f_{B_s}$ from simulations with HISQ heavy and light valence and sea quarks. Calculations are carried out with several heavy valence-quark masses on ensembles with 2+1+1 flavors of HISQ sea quarks at five lattice spacings and several light sea-quark mass ratios $m_{ud}/m_s$, including approximately physical sea-quark masses. This range of parameters provides excellent control of the...
Topic: High Energy Physics - Lattice
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02294
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Jun 30, 2018
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A. Bazavov; H. -T. Ding; P. Hegde; O. Kaczmarek; F. Karsch; E. Laermann; Y. Maezawa; S. Mukherjee; H. Ohno; P. Petreczky; H. Sandmeyer; P. Steinbrecher; C. Schmidt; S. Sharma; W. Soeldner; M. Wagner
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We calculated the QCD equation of state using Taylor expansions that include contributions from up to sixth order in the baryon, strangeness and electric charge chemical potentials. Calculations have been performed with the Highly Improved Staggered Quark action in the temperature range $T\in [135~{\rm MeV}, 330~{\rm MeV}]$ using up to four different sets of lattice cut-offs corresponding to lattices of size $N_\sigma^3\times N_\tau$ with aspect ratio $N_\sigma/N_\tau=4$ and $N_\tau =6-16$. The...
Topics: Nuclear Theory, Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Lattice, High Energy Physics -...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1701.04325
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Jun 30, 2018
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A. Bazavov; Y. Burnier; P. Petreczky
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We calculated the real and imaginary parts of the static quark anti-quark potential at T>0 in 2+1 flavor QCD using correlators of Wilson lines in Coulomb gauge and lattices with temporal extent N_tau=12. We find that the real part of the potential is larger than the singlet free energy but smaller than the zero temperature potential. The imaginary part of the potential is similar in size to the perturbative HTL result.
Topics: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Lattice
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.4267
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Jun 30, 2018
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A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; N. Brown; C. DeTar; J. Foley; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. E. Hetrick; J. Komijani; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; M. Oktay; R. L. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water; R. Zhou
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We report on a preliminary scale determination with gradient-flow techniques on the $N_f = 2 + 1 + 1$ HISQ ensembles generated by the MILC collaboration. The ensembles include four lattice spacings, ranging from 0.15 to 0.06 fm, and both physical and unphysical values of the quark masses. The scales $\sqrt{t_0}/a$ and $w_0/a$ are computed using Symanzik flow and the cloverleaf definition of $\langle E \rangle$ on each ensemble. Then both scales and the meson masses $aM_\pi$ and $aM_K$ are...
Topic: High Energy Physics - Lattice
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.0068
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Jun 30, 2018
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A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. Bouchard; C. DeTar; D. Du; A. X. El-Khadra; J. Foley; E. D. Freeland; E. Gámiz; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. Kim; J. Komijani; A. S. Kronfeld; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; P. B. Mackenzie; E. T. Neil; J. N. Simone; R. L. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water; R. Zhou
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We compute the leptonic decay constants $f_{D^+}$, $f_{D_s}$, and $f_{K^+}$, and the quark-mass ratios $m_c/m_s$ and $m_s/m_l$ in unquenched lattice QCD. We use the MILC highly improved staggered quark (HISQ) ensembles with four dynamical quark flavors. Our primary results are $f_{D^+} = 212.6(0.4)({}^{+1.0}_{-1.2})\ \mathrm{MeV}$, $f_{D_s} = 249.0(0.3)({}^{+1.1}_{-1.5})\ \mathrm{MeV}$, and $f_{D_s}/f_{D^+} = 1.1712(10)({}^{+29}_{-32})$, where the errors are statistical and total systematic,...
Topic: High Energy Physics - Lattice
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2667
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Jun 30, 2018
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Haiyuan Zou; Yuzhi Liu; Chen-Yen Lai; J. Unmuth-Yockey; Li-Ping Yang; A. Bazavov; Z. Y. Xie; T. Xiang; S. Chandrasekharan; S. -W. Tsai; Y. Meurice
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We connect explicitly the classical $O(2)$ model in 1+1 dimensions, a model sharing important features with $U(1)$ lattice gauge theory, to physical models potentially implementable on optical lattices and evolving at physical time. Using the tensor renormalization group formulation, we take the time continuum limit and check that finite dimensional projections used in recent proposals for quantum simulators provide controllable approximations of the original model. We propose two-species...
Topics: Quantum Physics, High Energy Physics - Lattice, Statistical Mechanics, Condensed Matter
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.5238
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Jun 29, 2018
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E. Gamiz; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. DeTar; D. Du; A. X. El-Khadra; E. D. Freeland; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. Komijani; A. S. Kronfeld; J. Laiho; P. B. Mackenzie; E. T. Neil; T. Primer; J. N. Simone; R. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water; Ran Zhou
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We discuss the reduction of errors in the calculation of the form factor $f_+^{K \pi}(0)$ with HISQ fermions on the $N_f=2+1+1$ MILC configurations from increased statistics on some key ensembles, new data on ensembles with lattice spacings down to 0.042 fm and the study of finite-volume effects within staggered ChPT. We also study the implications for the unitarity of the CKM matrix in the first row and for current tensions with leptonic determinations of $\vert V_{us}\vert$.
Topics: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Lattice, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04118
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Jul 20, 2013
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A. Bazavov; H. -T. Ding; P. Hegde; O. Kaczmarek; F. Karsch; E. Laermann; Y. Maezawa; Swagato Mukherjee; H. Ohno; P. Petreczky; C. Schmidt; S. Sharma; W. Soeldner; M. Wagner
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Appropriate combinations of up to fourth order cumulants of net strangeness fluctuations and their correlations with net baryon number and electric charge fluctuations, obtained from lattice QCD calculations, have been used to probe the strangeness carrying degrees of freedom at high temperatures. For temperatures up to the chiral crossover separate contributions of strange mesons and baryons can be well described by an uncorrelated gas of hadrons. Such a description breaks down in the chiral...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.7220v1
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Sep 23, 2013
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A. Bazavov; T. Bhattacharya; M. Cheng; C. DeTar; H. -T. Ding; Steven Gottlieb; R. Gupta; P. Hegde; U. M. Heller; F. Karsch; E. Laermann; L. Levkova; S. Mukherjee; P. Petreczky; C. Schmidt; R. A. Soltz; W. Soeldner; R. Sugar; D. Toussaint; W. Unger; P. Vranas
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We present results on the chiral and deconfinement properties of the QCD transition at finite temperature. Calculations are performed with 2+1 flavors of quarks using the p4, asqtad and HISQ/tree actions. Lattices with temporal extent N_tau=6, 8 and 12 are used to understand and control discretization errors and to reliably extrapolate estimates obtained at finite lattice spacings to the continuum limit. The chiral transition temperature is defined in terms of the phase transition in a theory...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1710v2
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Jun 28, 2018
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Jon A. Bailey; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. M. Bouchard; C. DeTar; Daping Du; A. X. El-Khadra; E. D. Freeland; E. Gamiz; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; A. S. Kronfeld; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; Yuzhi Liu; E. Lunghi; P. B. Mackenzie; Y. Meurice; E. Neil; Si-Wei Qiu; J. N. Simone; R. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water; Ran Zhou
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The rare decay $B\to\pi\ell^+\ell^-$ arises from $b\to d$ flavor-changing neutral currents and could be sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model. Here, we present the first $ab$-$initio$ QCD calculation of the $B\to\pi$ tensor form factor $f_T$. Together with the vector and scalar form factors $f_+$ and $f_0$ from our companion work [J. A. Bailey $et~al.$, Phys. Rev. D 92, 014024 (2015)], these parameterize the hadronic contribution to $B\to\pi$ semileptonic decays in any extension of the...
Topics: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Lattice
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.01618
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Sep 23, 2013
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H. -T. Ding; A. Bazavov; P. Hegde; F. Karsch; S. Mukherjee; P. Petreczky
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We studied the QCD phase transition as a function of quark mass in the $N_f=3$ QCD at vanishing baryon density. Lattice simulations have been performed using Highly Improved Staggered Quarks on $N_{\tau}=6$ lattices with quark masses that correspond to pion masses in the region $80 \lesssim m_{\pi} \lesssim 230 $MeV. We found no evidence of the first order phase transition in the current pion mass window. The pion mass at the critical point where the first order phase transition starts is...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.0185v1
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Jon A. Bailey; A. Bazavov; A. X. El-Khadra; Steven Gottlieb; R. D. Jain; A. S. Kronfeld; R. S. Van de Water; R. Zhou; for the Fermilab-Lattice Collaboration; the MILC Collaboration
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The measured partial widths of the semileptonic decays D to K l nu and D to pi l nu can be combined with the form factors calculated on the lattice to extract the CKM matrix elements |V_cs| and |V_cd|. The lattice calculations can be checked by comparing the form factor shapes from the lattice and experiment. We have generated a sizable data set by using heavy clover quarks with the Fermilab interpretation for charm and asqtad staggered light quarks on 2+1 flavor MILC ensembles with lattice...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.5471v1
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Jun 30, 2018
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A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. M. Bouchard; C. DeTar; D. Du; A. X. El-Khadra; J. Foley; E. D. Freeland; E. Gámiz; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. Kim; J. Komijani; A. S. Kronfeld; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; P. B. Mackenzie; E. T. Neil; J. N. Simone; R. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water; R. Zhou
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We compute the leptonic decay constants $f_{D^+}$, $f_{D_s}$, and $f_{K^+}$, and the quark-mass ratios $m_c/m_s$ and $m_s/m_l$ in unquenched lattice QCD using the experimentally determined value of $f_{\pi^+}$ for normalization. We use the MILC highly improved staggered quark (HISQ) ensembles with four dynamical quark flavors---up, down, strange, and charm---and with both physical and unphysical values of the light sea-quark masses. The use of physical pions removes the need for a chiral...
Topics: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Lattice
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3772
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J. A. Bailey; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. Bouchard; C. DeTar; D. Du; A. X. El-Khadra; J. Foley; E. D. Freeland; E. Gamiz; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; A. S. Kronfeld; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; Yuzhi Liu; P. B. Mackenzie; Y. Meurice; E. T. Neil; S. Qiu; J. N. Simone; R. L. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water; R. Zhou
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We compute the $B\to\pi\ell\nu$ semileptonic form factors and update the determination of the CKM matrix element $|V_{ub}|$. We use the MILC asqtad ensembles with $N_f=2+1$ sea quarks at four different lattice spacings in the range $a \approx 0.045$~fm to $0.12$~fm. The lattice form factors are extrapolated to the continuum limit using SU(2) staggered chiral perturbation theory in the hard pion limit, followed by an extrapolation in $q^2$ to the full kinematic range using a functional...
Topic: High Energy Physics - Lattice
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.6038
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Jun 30, 2018
06/18
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S. Basak; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. DeTar; E. Freeland; J. Foley; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. Komijani; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; J. Osborn; R. L. Sugar; A. Torok; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water; R. Zhou; for the MILC Collaboration
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We report on the MILC Collaboration calculation of electromagnetic effects on light pseudoscalar mesons. The simulations employ asqtad staggered dynamical quarks in QCD plus quenched photons, with lattice spacings varying from 0.12 to 0.06 fm. Finite volume corrections for the MILC realization of lattice electrodynamics have been calculated in chiral perturbation theory and applied to the lattice data. These corrections differ from those calculated by Hayakawa and Uno because our treatment of...
Topics: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Lattice
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7139
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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F. Karsch; A. Bazavov; H. -T. Ding; P. Hegde; O. Kaczmarek; E. Laermann; Swagato Mukherjee; H. Ohno; P. Petreczky; C. Schmidt; S. Sharma; W. Soeldner; P. Steinbrecher; M. Wagner
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We discuss the next-to-leading order Taylor expansion of ratios of cumulants of net-baryon number fluctuations. We focus on the relation between the skewness ratio, $S_B\sigma_B = \chi_3^B/\chi_1^B$, and the kurtosis ratio, $\kappa_B\sigma_B^2 =\chi_4^B/\chi_2^B$. We show that differences in these two cumulant ratios are small for small values of the baryon chemical potential. The next-to-leading order correction to $\kappa_B\sigma_B^2$ however is approximately three times larger than that for...
Topics: High Energy Physics - Lattice, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.06987
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Sep 23, 2013
09/13
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A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. DeTar; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. E. Hetrick; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; P. B. Mackenzie; M. B. Oktay; R. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water
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Dramatic progress has been made over the last decade in the numerical study of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) through the use of improved formulations of QCD on the lattice (improved actions), the development of new algorithms and the rapid increase in computing power available to lattice gauge theorists. In this article we describe simulations of full QCD using the improved staggered quark formalism, ``asqtad'' fermions. These simulations were carried out with two degenerate flavors of light...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3598v2
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Jun 27, 2018
06/18
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Fermilab Lattice; MILC Collaborations; :; Jon A. Bailey; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. M. Bouchard; C. DeTar; Daping Du; A. X. El-Khadra; J. Foley; E. D. Freeland; E. Gámiz; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. Komijani; A. S. Kronfeld; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; P. B. Mackenzie; E. T. Neil; Si-Wei Qiu; J. Simone; R. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water; Ran Zhou
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We present the first unquenched lattice-QCD calculation of the hadronic form factors for the exclusive decay $\overline{B} \rightarrow D \ell \overline{\nu}$ at nonzero recoil. We carry out numerical simulations on fourteen ensembles of gauge-field configurations generated with 2+1 flavors of asqtad-improved staggered sea quarks. The ensembles encompass a wide range of lattice spacings (approximately 0.045 to 0.12 fm) and ratios of light (up and down) to strange sea-quark masses ranging from...
Topic: High Energy Physics - Lattice
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.07237
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Jun 27, 2018
06/18
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Fermilab Lattice; MILC Collaborations; :; Jon A. Bailey; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. M. Bouchard; C. DeTar; Daping Du; A. X. El-Khadra; J. Foley; E. D. Freeland; E. Gámiz; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. Komijani; A. S. Kronfeld; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; Yuzhi Liu; P. B. Mackenzie; Y. Meurice; E. T. Neil; Si-Wei Qiu; J. Simone; R. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water; Ran Zhou
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We present a lattice-QCD calculation of the $B\to\pi\ell\nu$ semileptonic form factors and a new determination of the CKM matrix element $|V_{ub}|$. We use the MILC asqtad 2+1-flavor lattice configurations at four lattice spacings and light-quark masses down to 1/20 of the physical strange-quark mass. We extrapolate the lattice form factors to the continuum using staggered chiral perturbation theory in the hard-pion and SU(2) limits. We employ a model-independent $z$ parameterization to...
Topics: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Lattice
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.07839
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Sep 18, 2013
09/13
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A. Bazavov; P. Petreczky
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We discuss different static quark correlators, including Wilson loops in 2+1 flavor QCD at non-zero temperature and their relation to in-medium quarkonium properties. We present lattice results on static correlation functions obtained with highly improved staggered fermion action and their implications for potential models.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.5638v1
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Sep 23, 2013
09/13
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A. Bazavov; T. Bhattacharya; M. Cheng; N. H. Christ; C. DeTar; S. Ejiri; Steven Gottlieb; R. Gupta; U. M. Heller; K. Huebner; C. Jung; F. Karsch; E. Laermann; L. Levkova; C. Miao; R. D. Mawhinney; P. Petreczky; C. Schmidt; R. A. Soltz; W. Soeldner; R. Sugar; D. Toussaint; P. Vranas
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We calculate the equation of state in 2+1 flavor QCD at finite temperature with physical strange quark mass and almost physical light quark masses using lattices with temporal extent Nt=8. Calculations have been performed with two different improved staggered fermion actions, the asqtad and p4 actions. Overall, we find good agreement between results obtained with these two O(a^2) improved staggered fermion discretization schemes. A comparison with earlier calculations on coarser lattices is...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.4379v1
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Sep 21, 2013
09/13
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A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. DeTar; X. Du; W. Freeman; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. E. Hetrick; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; M. B. Oktay; R. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water
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In the light pseudoscalar sector, we study rooted staggered chiral perturbation theory in the two-flavor case. The pion mass and decay constant are calculated through NLO for a partially-quenched theory. In the limit where the strange quark mass is large compared to the light quark masses and the taste splittings, we show that the SU(2) staggered chiral theory emerges from the SU(3) staggered chiral theory, as expected. Explicit relations between SU(2) and SU(3) low energy constants and...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1792v1
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Sep 23, 2013
09/13
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MILC Collaboration; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. DeTar; X. Du; W. Freeman; Steven Gottlieb; Urs M. Heller; J. E. Hetrick; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; M. B. Oktay; J. Osborn; R. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water
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We present the current status of the MILC collaboration's calculations of the properties of the light pseudoscalar meson sector. We use asqtad staggered ensembles with 2+1 dynamical flavors down to $a \approx 0.045$ fm and light quark mass down to 0.05 $m_s$. Here we describe fits to the data using chiral forms from SU(3) chiral perturbation theory, including all staggered taste violations at NLO and the continuum NNLO chiral logarithms. We emphasize issues of convergence of the chiral...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.0868v1
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Sep 23, 2013
09/13
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A. Bazavov; B. A. Berg; Daping Du; Y. Meurice
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We present high-accuracy calculations of the density of states using multicanonical methods for lattice gauge theory with a compact gauge group U(1) on 4^4, 6^4 and 8^4 lattices. We show that the results are consistent with weak and strong coupling expansions. We present methods based on Chebyshev interpolations and Cauchy theorem to find the (Fisher's) zeros of the partition function in the complex beta=1/g^2 plane. The results are consistent with reweighting methods whenever the latter are...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.2109v1
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Sep 19, 2013
09/13
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A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. DeTar; X. Du; W. Freeman; Steven Gottlieb; Urs M. Heller; J. E. Hetrick; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; M. B. Oktay; J. Osborn; R. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water
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We present the status of the MILC collaboration's analysis of the light pseudoscalar meson sector with SU(3) chiral fits. The analysis includes data from new ensembles with smaller lattice spacing, smaller light quark masses and lighter than physical strange quark masses. Our fits include the NNLO chiral logarithms. We present results for decay constants, quark masses, Gasser-Leutwyler low energy constants, and condensates in the two- and three-flavor chiral limits.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3618v2
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Jun 30, 2018
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A. Bazavov; H. -T. Ding; P. Hegde; O. Kaczmarek; F. Karsch; E. Laermann; Y. Maezawa; Swagato Mukherjee; H. Ohno; P. Petreczky; C. Schmidt; S. Sharma; W. Soeldner; M. Wagner
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Ratios of cumulants of conserved net charge fluctuations are sensitive to the degrees of freedom that are carriers of the corresponding quantum numbers in different phases of strong interaction matter. Using lattice QCD with 2+1 dynamical flavors and quenched charm quarks we calculate second and fourth order cumulants of net charm fluctuations and their correlations with other conserved charges such as net baryon number, electric charge and strangeness. Analyzing appropriate ratios of these...
Topics: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Lattice, Nuclear Theory
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.4043
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Jon A. Bailey; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. M. Bouchard; C. DeTar; Daping Du; A. X. El-Khadra; J. Foley; E. D. Freeland; E. Gámiz; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; R. D. Jain; J. Komijani; A. S. Kronfeld; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; Yuzhi Liu; P. B. Mackenzie; Y. Meurice; E. T. Neil; Si-Wei Qiu; J. N. Simone; R. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water; Ran Zhou
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We compute the form factors for the $B \to Kl^+l^-$ semileptonic decay process in lattice QCD using gauge-field ensembles with 2+1 flavors of sea quark, generated by the MILC Collaboration. The ensembles span lattice spacings from 0.12 to 0.045 fm and have multiple sea-quark masses to help control the chiral extrapolation. The asqtad improved staggered action is used for the light valence and sea quarks, and the clover action with the Fermilab interpretation is used for the heavy $b$ quark. We...
Topics: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Lattice
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.06235
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Jun 30, 2018
06/18
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A. Bazavov; H. -T. Ding; P. Hegde; F. Karsch; E. Laermann; Swagato Mukherjee; P. Petreczky; C. Schmidt
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We investigate the phase structure of QCD with 3 degenerate quark flavors as function of the degenerate quark masses at vanishing baryon number density. We use the Highly Improved Staggered Quarks on lattices with temporal extent $N_{t}=6$ and perform calculations for six values of quark masses, which in the continuum limit correspond to pion masses in the range $80~{\rm MeV} \lesssim m_{\pi} \lesssim 230~$MeV. By analyzing the volume and temperature dependence of the chiral condensate and...
Topics: High Energy Physics - Theory, Nuclear Theory, High Energy Physics - Lattice
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1701.03548
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Sep 19, 2013
09/13
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A. Bazavov; A. Denbleyker; Daping Du; Y. Meurice; A. Velytsky; Haiyuan Zou
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We discuss Dyson's argument that the vacuum is unstable under a change g^2 -> - g^2, in the context of lattice gauge theory. For compact gauge groups, the partition function is well defined at negative g^2, but the average plaquette P has a discontinuity when g^2 changes sign. This reflects a change of vacuum rather than a loss of vacuum. In addition, P has poles in the complex g^2 plane, located at the complex zeros of the partition function (Fisher's zeros). We discuss the relevance of...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5785v1
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Sep 17, 2013
09/13
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Jon A. Bailey; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. Bouchard; C. DeTar; A. X. El-Khadra; E. D. Freeland; W. Freeman; E. Gamiz; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. E. Hetrick; A. S. Kronfeld; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; P. B. Mackenzie; M. B. Oktay; M. Di Pierro; J. N. Simone; R. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water
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Lattice calculations of the form factors for the charm semileptonic decays D to K l nu and D to pi l nu provide inputs to direct determinations of the CKM matrix elements |V(cs)| and |V(cd)| and can be designed to validate calculations of the form factors for the bottom semileptonic decays B to pi l nu and B to K l l-bar. We are using Fermilab charm (bottom) quarks and asqtad staggered light quarks on the 2+1 flavor asqtad MILC ensembles to calculate the charm (bottom) form factors. We outline...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.0214v1
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Sep 21, 2013
09/13
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S. Basak; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. DeTar; E. Freeland; W. Freeman; J. Foley; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. E. Hetrick; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; M. Oktay; J. Osborn; R. L. Sugar; A. Torok; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water; R. Zhou
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We report on the calculation by the MILC Collaboration of the electromagnetic effects on kaon and pion masses. These masses are computed in QCD with dynamical (asqtad staggered) quarks plus quenched photons at three lattice spacings varying from 0.12 to 0.06 fm. The masses are fit to staggered chiral perturbation theory with NLO electromagnetic terms, as well as analytic terms at higher order. We extrapolate the results to physical light-quark masses and to the continuum limit. At the current...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.7137v1
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Sep 18, 2013
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E. Gamiz; J. A. Bailey; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. Bouchard; C. DeTar; D. Du; A. X. El-Khadra; J. Foley; E. D. Freeland; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. Kim; A. S. Kronfeld; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; P. B. Mackenzie; E. T. Neil; M. B. Oktay; Si-Wei Qiu; J. N. Simone; R. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water; R. Zhou
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We report on the status of our kaon semileptonic form factor calculations using the highly-improved staggered quark (HISQ) formulation to simulate the valence fermions. We present results for the form factor f_+^{K \pi}(0) on the asqtad N_f=2+1 MILC configurations, discuss the chiral-continuum extrapolation, and give a preliminary estimate of the total error. We also present a more preliminary set of results for the same form factor but with the sea quarks also simulated with the HISQ action;...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0751v1
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Sep 23, 2013
09/13
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A. Bazavov; P. Petreczky
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We study correlation functions of various static meson operators of size r at non-zero temperature in 2+1 flavor QCD, including Coulomb gauge fixed operators and Wilson loops with smeared spatial parts. The numerical calculations are performed on 24^3x6 lattices using highly improved staggered quark action. We discuss possible implications of our findings on the temperature dependence of the static energy of QQbar pair.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5500v1
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Jun 27, 2018
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MILC Collaboration; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; N. Brown; C. DeTar; J. Foley; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. Komijani; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; R. L. Sugar; D. Toussaint; R. S. Van de Water
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We report on a scale determination with gradient-flow techniques on the $N_f=2+1+1$ highly improved staggered quark ensembles generated by the MILC Collaboration. The ensembles include four lattice spacings, ranging from approximately 0.15 to 0.06 fm, and both physical and unphysical values of the quark masses. The scales $\sqrt{t_0}/a$ and $w_0/a$ and their tree-level improvements, $\sqrt{t_{0,{\rm imp}}}$ and $w_{0,{\rm imp}}$, are computed on each ensemble using Symanzik flow and the...
Topic: High Energy Physics - Lattice
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02769
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Sep 22, 2013
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S. Basak; A. Bazavov; C. Bernard; C. DeTar; W. Freeman; Steven Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; J. E. Hetrick; J. Laiho; L. Levkova; J. Osborn; R. Sugar; D. Toussaint
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We present our initial study of the electromagnetic splittings of charged and neutral mesons, and the violation of Dashen's theorem. Hadron masses are calculated on MILC N_f=2+1 QCD ensembles at lattice spacing \approx 0.15fm, together with quenched non-compact U(1) configurations. The O(a^2) tadpole improved staggered quark (asqtad) action is used both for the sea quarks and for six different valence quark masses. Chiral extrapolations are performed using partially quenched chiral perturbation...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4486v1
