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This review gives an overview on the research of algorithms for dynamical fermions used in large scale lattice QCD simulations. First a short overview on the state-of-the-art of ensemble generation at the physical point is given. Followed…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-02-20 Jacob Finkenrath

Algorithmic and technical progress achieved over the last few years makes QCD simulations with light dynamical quarks much faster than before. As a result lattices with pions as light as 250--300 MeV can be simulated with the present…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-04-14 Leonardo Giusti

We simulate Quantum Chromodynamics in four Euclidean dimensions with two (degenerate mass) flavors of dynamical quarks. The Dirac operator is the so-called chirally improved operator that has been studied so far in quenched calculations. We…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 C. B. Lang , Pushan Majumdar , Wolfgang Ortner

We carry out a comparative study among five-dimensional formulations of chirally symmetric fermions about the algorithmic performance, chiral symmetry violation and topological tunneling to find a computationally inexpensive formulation…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-11-28 The JLQCD Collaboration , T. Kaneko , S. Aoki , G. Cossu , H. Fukaya , S. Hashimoto , J. Noaki

We have explored twisted mass LQCD (tmLQCD) analytically using chiral perturbation theory, including discretization effects up to O(a^2), and working at next-to-leading (NLO) order in the chiral expansion. In particular we have studied the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 Stephen R. Sharpe , Jackson M. S. Wu

We determine the light quark masses from lattice QCD simulations incorporating the electromagnetic interaction of valence quarks. The meson masses are calculated on lattice QCD configurations generated by the RBC Collaboration for two…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Blum , Takumi Doi , Masashi Hayakawa , Taku Izubuchi , Norikazu Yamada

We present the results of the recent high precision lattice calculation of the average up/down, strange and charm quark masses performed by ETMC with Nf=2 twisted mass Wilson fermions. The analysis includes data at four values of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-04-22 B. Blossier , P. Dimopoulos , R. Frezzotti , V. Lubicz , M. Petschlies , G. C. Rossi , F. Sanfilippo , S. Simula , C. Tarantino

We consider recent progress in algorithms for generating gauge field configurations that include the dynamical effects of light fermions. We survey what has been achieved in recent state-of-the-art computations, and examine the trade-offs…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 A. D. Kennedy

We present first results for the pseudoscalar decay constants $f_K$, $f_D$ and $f_{D_s}$ from lattice QCD with N_f=2+1+1 flavours of dynamical quarks. The lattice simulations have been performed by the European Twisted Mass collaboration…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-12-02 Federico Farchioni , Gregorio Herdoiza , Karl Jansen , Marcus Petschlies , Carsten Urbach , ETM collaboration

We present a comprehensive tensor network study of staggered, Wilson, and twisted mass fermions in the Hamiltonian formulation, using the massive two-flavor Schwinger model as a benchmark. Particular emphasis is placed on twisted mass…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-14 Tim Schwägerl , Karl Jansen , Stefan Kühn

Numerical simulations with access to all possible meson quantum numbers, J^{PC}, are presented using two-flavor (up and down) quenched twisted mass lattice QCD with three different lattice spacings and four different quark masses. The…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert G. Petry , Derek Harnett , Randy Lewis , R. M. Woloshyn

We present a systematic study of the effectiveness of light quark mass reweighting. This method allows a single lattice QCD ensemble, generated with a specific value of the dynamical light quark mass, to be used to determine results for…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-03-14 Qi Liu , Norman H. Christ , Chulwoo Jung

We present a preliminary lattice determination of the masses and decay constants of the pseudoscalar and vector mesons $B_c$ and $B_c^*$. Our analysis is based on the gauge configurations produced by the European Twisted Mass Collaboration…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-12-04 D. Becirevic , A. Melis , L. Riggio , G. Salerno , S. Simula

Three-flavor lattice QCD simulations and two-loop perturbation theory are used to make the most precise determination to date of the strange-, up-, and down-quark masses, $m_s$, $m_u$, and $m_d$, respectively. Perturbative matching is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Quentin Mason , Howard D. Trottier , Ron Horgan , Christine T. H. Davies , G. Peter Lepage

We present a lattice QCD calculation of the radiative leptonic decay rates of the kaon, improving upon our previous work, arXiv:2006.05358. Our analysis uses gauge ensembles generated by the Extended Twisted Mass Collaboration (ETMC) with…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-08-19 R. Di Palma , R. Frezzotti , G. Gagliardi , V. Lubicz , G. Martinelli , C. T. Sachrajda , F. Sanfilippo , S. Simula , N. Tantalo

To reduce errors in light-quark mass determinations, it is now necessary to consider electromagnetic contributions to light-meson masses. Calculations using staggered quarks and quenched photons are currently underway. Suitably-extended…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-18 C. Bernard , E. D. Freeland

We present the results of the lattice QCD calculation of the average up-down and strange quark masses and of the light meson pseudoscalar decay constants, recently performed with Nf=2 dynamical fermions by the ETM Collaboration. The…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-04-14 Vittorio Lubicz , Silvano Simula , Cecilia Tarantino

We present a lattice QCD calculation of the up, down, strange and charm quark masses performed using the gauge configurations produced by the European Twisted Mass Collaboration with Nf = 2 + 1 + 1 dynamical quarks, which include in the…

A brief overview of the lattice technique of studying QCD is presented. Recent results from the UKQCD Collaboration's simulations with dynamical quarks are then presented. In this work, the calculations are all at a fixed lattice spacing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Chris Allton

We present a lattice calculation of the electromagnetic (EM) effects on the masses of light pseudoscalar mesons. The simulations employ 2+1 dynamical flavors of asqtad QCD quarks, and quenched photons. Lattice spacings vary from $\approx…