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Fermion masses and mixing, both in the quark and leptonic sector, are discussed within the approach to the Yukawa puzzle proposed by Arkani-Hamed and Schmaltz. In the quark sector we have shown that at least two extra dimensions are…
We present physics results from simulations of QCD using $N_f = 2$ dynamical Wilson twisted mass fermions at the physical value of the pion mass. These simulations were enabled by the addition of the clover term to the twisted mass quark…
The phase transition of hadronic to quark matter at high baryon and isospin density is analyzed. Relativistic mean field models are used to describe hadronic matter, and the MIT bag model is adopted for quark matter. The boundaries of the…
In this work, we computed the equation of state of dense QCD in the presence of background magnetic fields using lattice QCD simulations at imaginary baryon chemical potential. Our simulations include 2+1+1 flavors of stout-smeared…
We present an update on ongoing work to extract pseudoscalar and vector decay constants for $B^{(*)}$, $B^{(*)}_s$ and $B^{(*)}_c$ mesons and determine phenomenologically-interesting ratios such as $f_{B_s}/f_B$ or $f_{B^*}/f_B$. Our…
We calculate the neutral kaon mixing parameter B_K in unquenched lattice QCD using asqtad-improved staggered sea quarks and domain-wall valence quarks. We use the "2+1" flavor gauge configurations generated by the MILC Collaboration, and…
We present a determination of the ratio of kaon and pion leptonic decay constants in isosymmetric QCD (isoQCD), $f_K / f_\pi$, making use of the gauge ensembles produced by the Extended Twisted Mass Collaboration (ETMC) with $N_f = 2 + 1 +…
We investigate the electromagnetic mass splittings in the pseudoscalar meson and nucleon systems by combining 2+1 flavor domain wall fermion gauge configurations, generated by the RBC and UKQCD collaborations, and quenched, non-compact,…
We review lattice results related to pion, kaon, $D$-meson, $B$-meson, and nucleon physics with the aim of making them easily accessible to the nuclear and particle physics communities. More specifically, we report on the determination of…
We present a detailed description of the method and results of our calculation of the kaon B parameter using the Wilson quark action in quenched QCD at $\beta=5.9-6.5$. The mixing problem of the $\Delta s=2$ four-quark operators is solved…
We delineate, as an analog of two-flavor dense quark matter, the phase structure of a many-body mixture of atomic bosons and fermions in two internal states with a tunable boson-fermion attraction. The bosons b correspond to diquarks, and…
Nucleon-structure calculations of isovector vector- and axialvector-current form factors, transversity and scalar charge, and quark momentum and helicity fractions are reported from two recent 2+1-flavor dynamical domain-wall fermions…
We report on our calculation of pion and kaon form factors in three-flavor QCD using the overlap quark action. Gauge ensembles are generated on a 16^3 \times 48 lattice at a lattice spacing of 0.11 fm with pion masses down to 310 MeV.…
We present results for kaon mixing parameter $B_K$ calculated using HYP-smeared improved staggered fermions on the MILC asqtad lattices. We use three lattice spacings ($a\approx 0.12$, $0.09$ and $0.06\;$fm), ten different valence quark…
We calculate the B-meson decay constants f_B, f_Bs, and their ratio in unquenched lattice QCD using domain-wall light quarks and relativistic b-quarks. We use gauge-field ensembles generated by the RBC and UKQCD collaborations using the…
We demonstrate a method for calculating the neutral B-meson decay constants and mixing matrix elements in unquenched lattice QCD with domain-wall light quarks and static b-quarks. Our computation is performed on the "2+1" flavor gauge…
The kaon B parameter is calculated in quenched lattice QCD with the Wilson quark action. The mixing problem of the \Delta s=2 four-quark operators is solved non-perturbatively with full use of chiral Ward identities, and this method enables…
In the last few years, numerical simulations of QCD on the lattice have reached a new level of accuracy. A wide range of thermodynamic quantities is now available in the continuum limit and for physical quark masses. This allows a…
$K \to \pi$ and $K \to 0$ weak matrix elements of $\Delta S = 1$ operators have been measured in 2+1 flavor domain wall fermion (DWF) QCD on (3 fm)$^3$ lattices with $a^{-1} = 1.73(3)$ GeV. As is well known, using these matrix elements and…
We present the latest results from the UKQCD/RBC collaborations for the K_{l3} form factor with 2+1 flavours of dynamical domain wall quarks. Simulations are performed on 16^3x32x16 and 24^3x64x16 lattices with three values of the light…