Mon·Nov 5, 2007Monday·November 5, 2007

1. 01*

   High precision study of B*B pi coupling in unquenched QCD

   Hiroshi Ohki🇯🇵 · Hideo Matsufuru🇯🇵 · Tetsuya Onogi🇯🇵

   The B* B pi coupling is a fundamental parameter of chiral effective Lagrangian with heavy-light mesons and can constrain the B->pi l nu form factor in the soft pion limit which will be useful for precise determination of |Vub|. We compute the B* B pi coupling with the static heavy quark and the O(a)-improved Wilson light quark. Simulations are carried out with n_f=2 unquenched 12^3x24 lattices at beta=1.80 generated by CP-PACS collaboration. Following the quenched study by Negishi et al., we employ the all-to-all propagator with 200 low eigenmodes as well as HYP smeared link to improve the statistical accuracy.

   hep-latPoS(2007)·1 citation
2. 02*

   A QCD chiral critical point at small chemical potential: is it there or not?

   Philippe de Forcrand🇨🇭 · Seyong Kim🇰🇷 · Owe Philipsen🇩🇪

   For a QCD chiral critical point to exist, the parameter region of small quark masses for which the finite temperature transition is first-order must expand when the chemical potential is turned on. This can be tested by a Taylor expansion of the critical surface (m_{u,d},m_s)_c(mu). We present a new method to perform this Taylor expansion numerically, which we first test on an effective model of QCD with static, dense quarks. We then present the results for QCD with 3 degenerate flavors. For a lattice with N_t=4 time-slices, the first-order region shrinks as the chemical potential is turned on. This implies that, for physical quark masses, the analytic crossover which occurs at mu=0 between the hadronic and the plasma regimes remains crossover in the mu-region where a Taylor expansion is reliable, i.e. mu less than or similar to T. We present preliminary results from finer lattices indicating that this situation persists, as does the discrepancy between the curvature of T_c(m_c(mu=0),mu) and the experimentally observed freeze-out curve.

   hep-lathep-phnucl-thPoS(2007)·106 citations
3. 03*

   QCD Thermodynamics

   Z. Fodor🇩🇪

   Recent results on QCD thermodynamics are presented. The nature of the T>0 transition is determined, which turns out to be an analytic cross-over. The absolute scale for this transition is calculated. The temperature dependent static potential is given. The results were obtained by using a Symanzik improved gauge and stout-link improved fermionic action. In order to approach the continuum limit four different sets of lattice spacings were used with temporal extensions N_t=4, 6, 8 and 10 (they correspond to lattice spacings a \sim 0.3, 0.2, 0.15 and 0.12 fm). A new technique is presented, which --in contrast to earlier methods-- enables one to determine the equation of state at very large temperatures.

   hep-latPoS(2007)·39 citations
4. 04*

   Euclidean Correlation Functions in a Holographic Model of QCD

   Thomas Schaefer (North Carolina State University)🇺🇸

   We compute euclidean coordinate space correlation functions in a holographic model of QCD. We concentrate, in particular, on channels that are related to the U(1)_A problem, the flavor-singlet axialvector, pseudoscalar meson, and pseudoscalar glueball (topological charge) correlator. We find that even a very simple holographic model defined on a slice of AdS_5 provides a qualitatively correct description of QCD correlation functions. We study the role of anomaly terms, and show that both euclidean positivity and low energy theorems based on the axial anomaly relation are correctly implemented. We compare the results with expectations from an instanton model of the QCD vacuum.

   ↳ hep-phhep-latPRD(2008)·18 citations

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