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Pion in a Box

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2010-04-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The residual mass of the pion in a finite spatial box at vanishing quark masses, the mass gap, is computed with two flavors of dynamical clover fermions. The result is compared with predictions of chiral perturbation theory in the delta regime.

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@article{arxiv.1002.1696,
  title  = {Pion in a Box},
  author = {W. Bietenholz and M. Göckeler and R. Horsley and Y. Nakamura and D. Pleiter and P. E. L. Rakow and G. Schierholz and J. M. Zanotti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.1696},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

Published version (Phys. Lett. B687 (2010) 410), appended by some additional derivations; 11 pages, 6 figures

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