Nonperturbative comparison of clover and highly improved staggered quarks in lattice QCD and the properties of the ϕ meson

Chakraborty, B., Davies, C.T.H. , Donald, G.C., Koponen, J. and Lepage, G.P. (2017) Nonperturbative comparison of clover and highly improved staggered quarks in lattice QCD and the properties of the ϕ meson. Physical Review D, 96(7), 074502. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.074502)

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Abstract

We compare correlators for pseudoscalar and vector mesons made from valence strange quarks using the clover quark and highly improved staggered quark (HISQ) formalisms in full lattice QCD. We use fully nonperturbative methods to normalize vector and axial vector current operators made from HISQ quarks, clover quarks and from combining HISQ and clover fields. This allows us to test expectations for the renormalization factors based on perturbative QCD, with implications for the error budget of lattice QCD calculations of the matrix elements of clover-staggered b-light weak currents, as well as further HISQ calculations of the hadronic vacuum polarization.We also compare the approach to the (same) continuum limit in clover and HISQ formalisms for the mass and decay constant of the ϕ meson. Our final results for these parameters, using single-meson correlators and allowing an uncertainty for the neglect of quark-line disconnected diagrams are: Mϕ ¼ 1.023ð6Þ GeV and fϕ ¼ 0.238ð3Þ GeV in good agreement with experiment. The results come from calculations in the HISQ formalism using gluon fields that include the effect of u, d, s and c quarks in the sea with three lattice spacing values and mu=d values going down to the physical point.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Davies, Professor Christine and Koponen, Dr Jonna
Authors: Chakraborty, B., Davies, C.T.H., Donald, G.C., Koponen, J., and Lepage, G.P.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
Journal Name:Physical Review D
Publisher:American Physical Society
ISSN:1550-7998
ISSN (Online):1550-2368
Published Online:02 October 2017
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2017 American Physical Society
First Published:First published in Physical Review D 96(7): 074502
Publisher Policy:Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy

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Project CodeAward NoProject NamePrincipal InvestigatorFunder's NameFunder RefLead Dept
630801Phenomenology from Lattice QCD and collider physicsChristine DaviesScience & Technology Facilities Council (STFC)ST/L000466/1S&E P&A - PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY