Progress in Lattice QCD Christine Davies University of Glasgow HPQCD collaboration
Physics in Collision Warwick, Sept 2015 QCD is a key part of the Standard Model but quark confinement is a complication/interesting feature. Cross-sections calculated at CDF high energy using QCD pert. th. with ~3% errors. Also parton distribution function and hadronisation uncertainties.
But (some) properties of hadrons much more accurately known and calculable in lattice QCD - can test SM and determine parameters very accurately (1%). Weak decays probe meson structure and quark couplings
Vud Vus Vub π lν K lν B πlν Vus 0 ! ! ! 1 K πlν ! B V V V C B cd cs cb C ν B D lν Ds lν B DlνC B ! ! ! C BD πlνD Klν C B ! ! C K B Vtd Vts Vtb C B C B B B B B C 2 2 B h d| dihs| si CBr(M µ⌫) V f @ A ! / ab M CKM matrix Expt = CKM x theory(QCD) Need precision lattice QCD to get accurate CKM elements to test Standard Model (e.g. is CKM unitary?). If Vab known, compare lattice to expt to test QCD Applications of Lattice QCD/Lattice field theory Annual proceedings:! Particle physics http://pos.sissa.it/ QCD parameters Hadron spectrum Hadron structure Nuclear physics
Glueballs and exotica CKM elements QCD at high temperatures Theories beyond the and densities Standard Model Nuclear masses and properties
Quantum gravity
Astrophysics LAT2015 talks: ! http://indico2.riken.jp/indico/ conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1805! Lattice QCD = fully nonperturbative, based on Path Integral formalism basic U exp( d4x) integral D D D LQCD Z Z • Generate sets of gluon fields for Monte Carlo integrn of Path Integral (inc effect of u, d, s (+ c) sea quarks) • Calculate averaged “hadron correlators” from valence q props. • Fit as a function of time to obtain masses and simple matrix elements • Determine a and fix m q to get results in physical units. • extrapolate to a =0 ,m u,d = phys for real world *now* able to a calculate directly Hadron correlation functions (‘2point functions’) give masses and decay constants. T mnT large m T 0 H†(T )H(0) 0 = Ane A e 0 h | | i 0 n ! QCD H masses of all H X hadrons with 2 2 quantum 0 H n fnmn numbers of H An = |h | | i| = 2mn 2 decay constant parameterises amplitude to annihilate - a property of the meson calculable in QCD. Relate to experimental decay rate. 1% accurate experimental info. for f and m for many mesons! Need accurate determination from lattice QCD to match Example (state-of-the-art) calculation
pion at physical mu/d Extract meson mass and amplitude=decay constant 0.1 from correlator for multiple lattice spacings and mu/d. correlator(T) Very high statistics
0.01 Extrapolation in a 0 20 40 60 80 100 T Convert decay constant to GeV units using w 0 to fix relative lattice spacing. Very small discretisation errors.
R. Dowdall et al, HPQCD, 1303.1670. = ml/ms The gold-plated meson mass spectrum 12 2011 expt h (2P) b2 fix params 2012 b b1(2P) postdcns '' b0 ' ' predcns 10 b b2 b1(1P) 2008 b hb(1P) b0 (1D) ) 2 8 2014
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