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Extraction of isoscalar $\pi\pi$ phase-shifts from lattice QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2018-07-18 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We conduct a two-flavor (Nf=2N_f=2) lattice QCD calculation of the elastic phase-shifts for pion-pion scattering in the scalar, isoscalar channel (the σ\sigma-meson). The calculation is performed for two quark masses corresponding to a pion mass of 315 MeV315\text{ MeV} and 227 MeV227\text{ MeV}. The σ\sigma-meson parameters are extracted using various parametrizations of the scattering amplitude. The results obtained from a chiral unitary parametrization are extrapolated to the physical point and read Mσ=(44016+10(50)i240(20)(25)) MeVM_\sigma = (440^{+10}_{-16}(50) - i\,240(20)(25))\text{ MeV}, where the uncertainties in the parentheses denote the stochastic and systematic ones. The behavior of the σ\sigma-meson parameters with increasing pion mass is discussed as well.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1803.02897,
  title  = {Extraction of isoscalar $\pi\pi$ phase-shifts from lattice QCD},
  author = {Dehua Guo and Andrei Alexandru and Raquel Molina and Maxim Mai and Michael Döring},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.02897},
  year   = {2018}
}

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14 pages, 8 figures