Light Hadron Spectrum from Quenched Lattice QCD: Results from the CP-PACS
Open Access
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Progress of Theoretical Physics
- Vol. 105 (1) , 37-75
- https://doi.org/10.1143/ptp.105.37
Abstract
Deriving the light hadron spectrum from first principles of QCD has been a fundamental issue in elementary particle physics since the mid-1970s, when QCD was established. With this goal in mind, we have carried out large-scale simulations of lattice QCD on the CP-PACS computer. In this article, we present results for the light hadron spectrum derived in the quenched approximation to lattice QCD. We find that although the global structure of the observed spectrum is reproduced, the quenched spectrum systematically deviates from experiment when examined with an accuracy at better than a 10% level. Results for light quark masses are also reported. Another simulation of full QCD done recently (also on the CP-PACS computer) shows indications that the discrepancy observed in quenched QCD is significantly reduced by the introduction of two flavors of light dynamical quarks.Keywords
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