Isospin symmetry breaking effects in the pion and nucleon masses

Abstract

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, lattice QED configurations. We analyze finite volume effects by using $16^3\times 32$ and $24^3\times 64$ lattices.

Comments: Talk given at The XXVI International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, LATTICE 2008 - Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. July 14 - 19, 2008