Nonperturbative QCD simulations with flavors of improved staggered quarks

A Bazavov, D Toussaint, C Bernard, J Laiho… - Reviews of modern …, 2010 - APS
Dramatic progress has been made over the last decade in the numerical study of quantum
chromodynamics (QCD) through the use of improved formulations of QCD on the lattice …

Light hadron masses from lattice QCD

Z Fodor, C Hoelbling - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2012 - APS
This article reviews lattice QCD results for the light hadron spectrum. An overview of different
formulations of lattice QCD with discussions on the fermion doubling problem and …

Analytic smearing of link variables in lattice QCD

C Morningstar, M Peardon - Physical Review D, 2004 - APS
An analytic method of smearing link variables in lattice QCD is proposed and tested. The
differentiability of the smearing scheme with respect to the link variables permits the use of …

Hadron structure from lattice quantum chromodynamics

P Hägler - Physics reports, 2010 - Elsevier
This is a review of hadron structure physics from lattice QCD. Throughout this report, we
place emphasis on the contribution of lattice results to our understanding of a number of …

Resonance properties from the finite-volume energy spectrum

V Bernard, M Lage, UG Meißner… - Journal of high energy …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
A new method based on the concept of probability distribution is proposed to analyze the
finite volume energy spectrum in lattice QCD. Using synthetic lattice data, we demonstrate …

Limits on variations of the quark masses, QCD scale, and fine structure constant

VV Flambaum, DB Leinweber, AW Thomas, RD Young - Physical Review D, 2004 - APS
We perform calculations of the dependence of nuclear magnetic moments on quark masses
and obtain limits on the variation of the fine structure constant α and (mq/Λ QCD) from recent …

Precise determination of the strangeness magnetic moment of the nucleon

DB Leinweber, S Boinepalli, IC Cloet, AW Thomas… - Physical review …, 2005 - APS
By combining the constraints of charge symmetry with new chiral extrapolation techniques
and recent low mass quenched lattice-QCD simulations of the individual quark contributions …

Highly improved lattice field-strength tensor

SO Bilson-Thompson, DB Leinweber, AG Williams - Annals of Physics, 2003 - Elsevier
We derive an O (a 4)-improved lattice version of the continuum field-strength tensor.
Discretization errors are reduced via the combination of several clover terms of various …

Excited baryons in lattice QCD

W Melnitchouk, S Bilson-Thompson, FDR Bonnet… - Physical Review D, 2003 - APS
We present the first results for the masses of positive and negative parity excited baryons
calculated in lattice QCD using an O (a 2)-improved gluon action and a fat-link irrelevant …

Strange electric form factor of the proton

DB Leinweber, S Boinepalli, AW Thomas, P Wang… - Physical review …, 2006 - APS
By combining the constraints of charge symmetry with new chiral extrapolation techniques
and recent low-mass quenched lattice QCD simulations of the individual quark contributions …