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Lattice QCD with a twisted mass term and a strange quark

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

There are three quarks with masses at or below the characteristic scale of QCD dynamics: up, down and strange. However, twisted mass lattice QCD relies on quark doublets. Various options for including three quark flavors within the twisted mass approach are explored by studying the kaon masses, both analytically (through chiral Lagrangians) and numerically (through lattice simulations). Advantages and disadvantages are revealed for each ``strange and twisted'' option.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0610090,
  title  = {Lattice QCD with a twisted mass term and a strange quark},
  author = {Abdou M. Abdel-Rehim and Randy Lewis and R. M. Woloshyn and Jackson M. S. Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0610090},
  year   = {2008}
}

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3 pages, 1 figure. Presented at the IVth International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics, Madrid, Spain, 5-10 June 2006