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Twisted mass quarks and the phase structure of lattice QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

The phase structure of zero temperature twisted mass lattice QCD is investigated. We find strong metastabilities in the plaquette observable when the untwisted quark mass assumes positive or negative values. We provide interpretations of this phenomenon in terms of chiral symmetry breaking and the effective potential model of Sharpe and Singleton.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0406039,
  title  = {Twisted mass quarks and the phase structure of lattice QCD},
  author = {F. Farchioni and R. Frezzotti and K. Jansen and I. Montvay and G. C. Rossi and E. Scholz and A. Shindler and N. Ukita and C. Urbach and I. Wetzorke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0406039},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

31 pages, 7 figures; published version with added clarifications