θ dependence of SU (N) gauge theories in the presence of a topological term

E Vicari, H Panagopoulos - Physics Reports, 2009 - Elsevier
We review results concerning the θ dependence of 4D SU (N) gauge theories and QCD,
where θ is the coefficient of the CP-violating topological term in the Lagrangian. In particular …

Glueball masses and other physical properties of SU (N) gauge theories in D= 3+ 1: a review of lattice results for theorists

M Teper - arXiv preprint hep-th/9812187, 1998 - arxiv.org
We summarise what lattice simulations have to say about the physical properties of
continuum SU (N) gauge theories in 3+ 1 dimensions. The quantities covered are: the …

Flavor symmetry and the static potential with hypercubic blocking

A Hasenfratz, F Knechtli - Physical Review D, 2001 - APS
We introduce a new smearing transformation, the hypercubic (HYP) fat link. The hypercubic
fat link mixes gauge links within hypercubes attached to the original link only. Using …

Lattice QCD ensembles with four flavors of highly improved staggered quarks

A Bazavov, C Bernard, J Komijani, C DeTar… - Physical Review D …, 2013 - APS
We present results from our simulations of quantum chromodynamics with four flavors of
quarks: u, d, s, and c. These simulations are performed with a one-loop Symanzik improved …

θ dependence of SU (N) gauge theories

L Del Debbio, H Panagopoulos… - Journal of High Energy …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the θ dependence of four-dimensional SU (N) gauge theories, for N⩾ 3 and in the
large-N limit. We use numerical simulations of the Wilson lattice formulation of gauge …

Topological susceptibility in su (3) gauge theory

L Del Debbio, L Giusti, C Pica - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
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 …

Direct instantons, topological charge screening, and qcd glueball sum rules

H Forkel - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2005 - APS
Nonperturbative Wilson coefficients of the operator product expansion (OPE) for the spin-0
glueball correlators are derived and analyzed. A systematic treatment of the direct instanton …

Instanton-induced effects in QCD high-energy scattering

E Shuryak, I Zahed - Physical Review D, 2000 - APS
We evaluate a number of new instanton-induced phenomena in QCD, starting with static
dipole-dipole potentials, and proceeding to quark-quark and dipole-dipole scattering at high …

Improving the chiral properties of lattice fermions

T DeGrand, A Hasenfratz, TG Kovacs - Physical Review D, 2003 - APS
The chiral properties of lattice fermions can be improved by altering either their fermion-
gauge coupling or the pure gauge part of the action (or both). Using both perturbation theory …

Low-lying fermion modes, topology, and light hadrons in quenched QCD

T DeGrand, A Hasenfratz - Physical Review D, 2001 - APS
We explore the properties of low lying eigenmodes of fermions in the quenched
approximation of lattice QCD. The fermion action is a recently proposed overlap action and …