Precision charm physics, m_c and alpha_s from lattice QCD
C. T. H. Davies, E. Gregory, I. Kendall, C. McNeile, G. P. Lepage, I. Allison, R. Woloshyn, E. Dalgic, H. Trottier, E. Follana, R. Horgan, K. Hornbostel, J. Shigemitsu
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14 pages, 7 figures, combined proceedings of talks by Christine Davies and Peter Lepage at the International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory 2008, Williamsburg
We present an update of results from the HPQCD collaboration on charm physics using the Highly Improved Staggered Quark action. This includes a precise determination of m_c using moments of current-current correlators combined with high-order continuum QCD perturbation theory. We also include an update on the determination of alpha_s from lattice QCD, preliminary results on the determination of m_b and a summary plot of the status of the gold-plated meson spectrum. There is an appendix on tackling systematic errors in fitting using the Bayesian approach.
We investigate the influence of dynamical charm quarks on observables that depend explicitly on the charm quark fields, like the pseudo-scalar and vector masses $m_{η_c}$ and $m_{J/ψ}$, the hyperfine splitting $(m_{J/ψ}-m_{η_c})/m_{η_c}$, the charm quark mass and the meson decay constants. For this purpose, instead of working in full QCD we study a simplified setup. We simulate two theories: $N_f= 0$ QCD and QCD with $N_f= 2$ dynamical quarks at the charm mass. The absence of light quarks allows us to reach extremely fine lattice spacings (0.02 fm < a < 0.05 fm) which are crucial for reliable …
Using the high statistics datasets of the HotQCD Collaboration, generated with the HISQ (2+1)-flavor action for light and strange quarks, and treating the charm sector in the quenched approximation, we analyze the second and fourth order cumulants of charm fluctuations and the correlations of charm with lighter conserved flavor quantum numbers. We can make use of a factor 100 larger statistics on ${N_τ=8}$ lattices which never have been used in studies of charm fluctuations. Analyzing correlations of charm fluctuations with baryon number and electric charge fluctuations we can project onto cha…
The charmonium-nucleon interaction is studied by the time-dependent HAL QCD method. We use a larger lattice volume and the relativistic heavy quark action for charm quark to obtain less systematic errors than those in our previous study. As a result, the sizable J/$ψ$N hyperfine splitting is observed, indicating that the spin-spin interaction is important to understand this system quantitatively. No J/$ψ$N or $η_c$N bound state is observed below the thresholds as in the previous results.
Charmonium properties at high temperatures from lattice QCD
Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld(比勒费尔德大学物理系);Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory(布鲁克海文国家实验室物理系);Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt(达姆施塔特工业大学核物理研究所);Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium Bad Dürkheim(巴特迪尔凯姆维尔纳·海森堡中学)
We study the light quark-mass dependence of charmed baryon masses as measured by various QCD lattice collaborations. A global fit to such data based on the chiral SU(3) Lagrangian is reported on. All low-energy constants that are relevant at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) are determined from the lattice data sets where constraints from sum rules as they follow from large-Nc QCD at subleading order are considered. The expected hierarchy for the low-energy constants in the 1/Nc expansion is confirmed by our global fits to the lattice data. With our results the low-energy interac…
The precision of lattice QCD calculations has been steadily improving for some time and is now approaching, or has surpassed, the 1% level for multiple quantities. At this level QED effects, i.e. the fact that quarks carry electric as well as color charge, come into play. In this report we will summarise results from the first lattice QCD+QED computations of the properties of ground-state charmonium and bottomonium mesons by the HPQCD Collaboration.
We present the energy spectra of the low lying doubly-charmed baryons using lattice quantum chromodynamics. We precisely predict the ground state mass of the charmed-strange Omega(cc) (1/2+) baryon to be 3712(11)(12) MeV which could well be the next doubly-charmed baryon to be discovered at the LHCb experiment at CERN. We also predict masses of other doubly-charmed strange baryons with quantum numbers 3/2+, 1/2-, and 3/2-.
The $J/ψ$-nucleon interaction is studied by lattice QCD calculations. At the leading order of the derivative expansion, the interaction consists of four terms: the central, the spin-spin, and two types of tensor forces. We determine these spin-dependent forces quantitatively by using the time-dependent HAL QCD method. We find that the spin-spin force is the main cause of the hyperfine splitting between the $J=1/2$ and the $J=3/2$ states, while the two tensor forces have much smaller effects on the S-wave scattering processes.
We compute temporal correlators and spectral functions for light, open charm and charmonium mesons in the pseudoscalar and vector channel for a range of temperatures below and above the deconfinement transition. The study is carried out using anisotropic lattice QCD with 2+1 dynamical flavours, $a_s=0.123\,$fm and $a_s/a_τ=3.5$. The high-temperature results are benchmarked by comparing them to reconstructed correlators obtained by direct summation of the zero temperature correlator. We use two Bayesian methods to reconstruct the spectral functions: the maximum entropy method and the more recen…
We compute the hadronic light-by-light scattering contribution to the muon $g-2$ from the charm quark using lattice QCD. The calculation is performed on ensembles generated with dynamical $(u,d,s)$ quarks at the SU(3)$_{\rm f}$ symmetric point with degenerate pion and kaon masses of around 415 MeV. It includes the connected charm contribution, as well as the leading disconnected Wick contraction, involving the correlation between a charm and a light-quark loop. Cutoff effects turn out to be sizeable, which leads us to use lighter-than-physical charm masses, to employ a broad range of lattice s…
Gluonic excitation of non-exotic hybrid charmonium from lattice QCD
利用猝灭格点量子色动力学研究了具有非奇异量子数$J^{PC}=0^{-+}$、$1^{--}$和$1^{++}$的杂化粲偶素${\bar c} c g$的基态和第一激发态.它们在文献中被完全忽略,只是因为它们的基态与$η_c$,$J/ψ$和$χ_{c1}$简并,并且在实验中很难与这些常规的粲素介子区分开来。然而,我们在第一激发态中观察到了强的胶子径向激发,我们预测它们的质量分别为4.352(225)GeV、4.379(149)GeV和7.315(257)GeV,与相应的常规粲偶素的第一激发态完全不同。它们与最近发现的Y(4260)态的相关性和未来对其他态的实验研究也进行了讨论。
We review selected lattice results on the charmonium spectrum and first attempts to search for the existence of exotic states. The hadro-quarkonium model was proposed to interpret some of the exotic states as a quarkonium core inside a hadron. We present a lattice study of the hadro-quarkonium model in the limit of static quarks. The charm quark decouples in low energy observables and binding energies of charmonium. In a model calculation we are able to evaluate the corrections to decoupling of the charm quark in the continuum.