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Topological susceptibility in the SU(3) gauge theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We compute the topological susceptibility for the SU(3) Yang--Mills theory by employing the expression of the topological charge density operator suggested by Neuberger's fermions. In the continuum limit we find r_0^4 chi = 0.059(3), which corresponds to chi=(191 +/- 5 MeV)^4 if F_K is used to set the scale. Our result supports the Witten--Veneziano explanation for the large mass of the eta'.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0407052,
  title  = {Topological susceptibility in the SU(3) gauge theory},
  author = {Luigi Del Debbio and Leonardo Giusti and Claudio Pica},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0407052},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Final version to appear on Phys. Rev. Lett