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Excited nucleon spectrum using a non-perturbatively improved clover fermion action

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2012-08-27 v2

Abstract

We discuss the extraction of negative-parity baryon masses from lattice QCD calculations. The mass of the lowest-lying negative-parity J=1/2J = 1/2^{-} state is computed in quenched lattice QCD using an O(a){\cal O}(a)-improved clover fermion action, and a splitting found with the nucleon mass. The calculation is performed on two lattice volumes, and three lattice spacings enabling a study of both finite-volume and finite-lattice-spacing uncertainties. A measurement of the first excited radial excitation of the nucleon finds a mass considerably larger than that of the negative-parity ground state, in accord with other lattice determinations but in disagreement with experiment. Results are also presented for the lightest negative-parity I=3/2I=3/2 state.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0112031,
  title  = {Excited nucleon spectrum using a non-perturbatively improved clover fermion action},
  author = {LHPC Collaboration and D. G. Richards and QCDSF Collaboration and : and M. Gockeler and R. Horsley and D. Pleiter and P. E. L. Rakow and G. Schierholz and UKQCD Collaboration and : and C. M. Maynard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0112031},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

7 pages, 5 figures, uses espcrc2. Talk presented at Workshop on Lattice Hadron Physics, Colonial Club Resort, Cairns, Australia, July 9-18, 2001. Corrected error in determination of mass of excited, positive-parity nucleon resonance