Search results for "QCD vacuum"
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Effects of $CP$-violating internucleon interactions in paramagnetic molecules
2020
We demonstrate that electron electric dipole moment experiments with molecules in paramagnetic state are sensitive to $P,T$-violating nuclear forces and other $CP$-violating parameters in the hadronic sector. These experiments, in particular, measure the coupling constant $C_{SP}$ of the $CP$-odd contact semileptonic interaction. We establish relations between $C_{SP}$ and different $CP$-violating hadronic parameters including strength constants of the $CP$-odd nuclear potentials, $CP$-odd pion-nucleon interactions, quark-chromo EDM and QCD vacuum angle. These relations allow us to find limits on various $CP$-odd hadronic parameters.
Strongly interacting matter under external magnetic fields within nonlocal NJL-type models
2017
We study the behavior of strongly interacting matter under an external magnetic field in the context of nonlocal Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) -like models. We find that at zero temperature the condensates display the well-known Magnetic Catalysis effect, showing a good quantitative agreement with lattice QCD (LQCD) results. Moreover, when extended to finite temperature we find that (contrary to what happens in the local NJL model) the Inverse Magnetic Catalysis (IMC) effect is naturally incorporated. We also analyze the magnetic susceptibility of the QCD vacuum in the limit of small magnetic field, considering two different model parametrizations, and compare our numerical results to those obta…
Hamiltonian lattice QCD at finite density: equation of state in the strong coupling limit
2001
The equation of state of Hamiltonian lattice QCD at finite density is examined in the strong coupling limit by constructing a solution to the equation of motion corresponding to an effective Hamiltonian describing the ground state of the many body system. This solution exactly diagonalizes the Hamiltonian to second order in field operators for all densities and is used to evaluate the vacuum energy density from which we obtain the equation of state. We find that up to and beyond the chiral symmetry restoration density the pressure of the quark Fermi sea can be negative indicating its mechanical instability. Our result is in qualitative agreement with continuum models and should be verifiabl…
Instantons and eta meson production near threshold in NN collisions
1999
An enhancement for the $\eta$ production in proton-neutron collisions as compared with that in proton-proton scattering has been recently observed. We present a calculation for the production cross section, in proton-neutron collisions near threshold, within instanton model for the QCD vacuum and show that a specific flavor dependent nonperturbative quark-gluon interaction related to instantons is able to explain the observed enhancement.
Charm quark mass and D-meson decay constants from two-flavour lattice QCD
2013
We present a computation of the charm quark's mass and the leptonic D-meson decay constants f_D and f_{D_s} in two-flavour lattice QCD with non-perturbatively O(a) improved Wilson quarks. Our analysis is based on the CLS configurations at two lattice spacings (a=0.065 and 0.048 fm, where the lattice scale is set by f_K) and pion masses ranging down to ~ 190 MeV at L*m_pi > 4, in order to perform controlled continuum and chiral extrapolations with small systematic uncertainties.
Spectrum of the QCD flux tube in 3d SU(2) lattice gauge theory
2009
Abstract Evidence from the lattice suggests that formation of a flux tube between a q q ¯ pair in the QCD vacuum leads to quark confinement. For large separations between the quarks, it is conjectured that the flux tube has a behavior similar to an oscillating bosonic string, supported by lattice data for the groundstate q q ¯ potential. We measure the excited states of the flux tube in 3d SU ( 2 ) gauge theory with three different couplings inside the scaling region. We compare our results to predictions of effective string theories.
Lattice QCD for Nuclear Physics
2015
Lattice QCD: a Brief Introduction.- Lattice Methods for Hadron Spectroscopy.- Hadron Structure on the Lattice.- Chiral Perturbation Theory.- Nuclear Physics From Lattice QCD.- High Temperature and Density in Lattice QCD.- References.
QCD vacuum condensates from tau-lepton decay data
2006
The QCD vacuum condensates in the Operator Product Expansion are extracted from the final ALEPH data on vector and axial-vector spectral functions from $\tau$-decay. Weighted Finite Energy Sum Rules are employed in the framework of both Fixed Order and Contour Improved Perturbation Theory. An overall consistent picture satisfying chirality constraints can be achieved only for values of the QCD scale below some critical value $\Lambda\simeq350 {MeV}$. For larger values of $\Lambda$, perturbation theory overwhelms the power corrections. A strong correlation is then found between $\Lambda$ and the resulting values of the condensates. Reasonable accuracy is obtained up to dimension $d=8$, beyon…
5 QCD on the Lattice
2008
Since Wilson’s seminal papers of the mid-1970s, the lattice approach to Quantum Chromodynamics has become increasingly important for the study of the strong interaction at low energies, and has now turned into a mature and established technique. In spite of the fact that the lattice formulation of Quantum Field Theory has been applied to virtually all fundamental interactions, it is appropriate to discuss this topic in a chapter devoted to QCD, since by far the largest part of activity is focused on the strong interaction. Lattice QCD is, in fact, the only known method which allows ab initio investigations of hadronic properties, starting from the QCD Lagrangian formulated in terms of quark…
Dynamic AdS/QCD and the spectrum of walking gauge theories
2013
We present a simple AdS/QCD model in which the formation of the chiral condensate is dynamically determined. The gauge dynamics is input through the running of the quark bilinear's anomalous dimension, gamma. The condensate provides a dynamically generated infra-red wall in the computation of mesonic bound state masses and decay constants. As an example, we use the model, with perturbative computations of the running of gamma, to study SU(3) gauge theory with a continuous number of quark flavours, Nf. We follow the behaviour of the spectrum as we approach the conformal window through a walking gauge theory regime. We show such walking theories display a BKT phase transition, with Miransky s…