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Strangeness of the nucleon from Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2015-05-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present a non-perturbative calculation of the strangeness of the nucleon yNy_N within the framework of lattice QCD. This observable is known to be an important cornerstone to interpret results from direct dark matter detection experiments. We perform a lattice computation for yNy_N with an analysis of systematic effects originating from discretization, finite size, chiral extrapolation and excited state effects leading to the value of yN=0.173(50)y_N= 0.173(50). The rather large uncertainty of this value of yNy_N is dominated by systematic uncertainties which we were able to quantify in this work.

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@article{arxiv.1309.7768,
  title  = {Strangeness of the nucleon from Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics},
  author = {Constantia Alexandrou and Martha Constantinou and Simon Dinter and Vincent Drach and Kyriakos Hadjiyiannakou and Karl Jansen and Giannis Koutsou and Alejandro Vaquero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.7768},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

14 pages, 3 figures, version accepted by PRD