spectrum andfrom full lattice QCD
- 17 November 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 72 (9) , 094507
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.72.094507
Abstract
We show results for the spectrum calculated in lattice QCD including for the first time vacuum polarization effects for light and quarks as well as quarks. We use gluon field configurations generated by the MILC collaboration. The calculations compare the results for a variety of and quark masses, as well as making a comparison to quenched results (in which quark vacuum polarization is ignored) and results with only and quarks. The quarks in the are treated in lattice Nonrelativistic QCD through NLO in an expansion in the velocity of the quark. We concentrate on accurate results for orbital and radial splittings where we see clear agreement with experiment once , and quark vacuum polarization effects are included. This now allows a consistent determination of the parameters of QCD. We demonstrate this consistency through the agreement of the and spectrum using the same lattice bare quark mass. A one-loop matching to continuum QCD gives a value for the quark mass in full lattice QCD for the first time. We obtain . We are able to give physical results for the heavy quark potential parameters, and . Results for the fine structure in the spectrum and the leptonic width are also presented. We predict the splitting to be 61(14) MeV, the splitting as 30(19) MeV and the splitting between the and the spin-average of the states to be less than 6 MeV. Improvements to these calculations that will be made in the near future are discussed.
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