We present our progress on calculating leading-order QED corrections to meson masses and bare quark masses. As lattice QCD calculations become more precise, these QED corrections are becoming more important. However, one of the challenges in adding QED effects to QCD calculations is avoiding power-law suppressed finite-volume effects. By using the recently introduced infinite-volume reconstruction method for QED, we are able to avoid this problem and perform calculations with exponentially-suppressed finite-volume effects.
@article{arxiv.2504.16702,
title = {QED corrections to meson masses},
author = {Joshua Swaim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.16702},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
v2 added references to relevant work on QED corrections using ensembles from the European Twisted Mass Collaboration v3 added more references to work on QED corrects to meson masses