Chiral extrapolations of baryon masses for unquenched three-flavor lattice simulations

Abstract

We have analyzed the chiral expansion of the baryon masses to second order in the quark masses, including strong isospin violation. The calculations are performed in Lorentz-invariant baryon chiral perturbation theory. Chiral extrapolation functions for three-flavor unquenched lattice simulations are derived. The matching to the two-flavor case and the sigma terms are also considered.

Comments: 49 pages, 2 eps figures