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Pion form factor and charge radius from Lattice QCD at physical point

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2022-01-07 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present our results on the electromagnetic form factor of pion over a wide range of Q2Q^2 using lattice QCD simulations with Wilson-clover valence quarks and HISQ sea quarks. We study the form factor at the physical point with a lattice spacing a=0.076a=0.076 fm. To study the lattice spacing and quark mass effects, we also present results for 300 MeV pion at two different lattice spacings a=0.04a=0.04 and 0.06 fm. The lattice calculations at the physical quark mass appear to agree with the experimental results. Through fits to the form factor, we estimate the charge radius of pion for physical pion mass to be rπ2=0.42(2) fm2\langle r_{\pi}^2 \rangle=0.42(2)~{\rm fm}^2.

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@article{arxiv.2102.06047,
  title  = {Pion form factor and charge radius from Lattice QCD at physical point},
  author = {Xiang Gao and Nikhil Karthik and Swagato Mukherjee and Peter Petreczky and Sergey Syritsyn and Yong Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.06047},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

14 pages, 14 figures, revised version accepted by PRD

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