23–28 Jun 2014
Columbia University
US/Eastern timezone

Finite volume effects and the electromagnetic contributions to kaon and pion masses

27 Jun 2014, 14:35
20m
428 Pupin

428 Pupin

Talk Hadron Spectroscopy and Interactions Hadron spectroscopy and interaction

Speaker

Prof. Claude Bernard (Washington University St. Louis)

Description

We report on the MILC Collaboration calculation of electromagnetic effects on light pseudoscalar mesons. The simulations employ asqtad staggered dynamical quarks in QCD plus quenched photons, with lattice spacings varying from 0.12 to 0.06 fm. Finite volume corrections for the MILC realization of lattice electrodynamics have been calculated in chiral perturbation theory theory and applied to the lattice data. These corrections differ from those calculated by Hayakawa and Uno because our treatment of zero modes differs from theirs. Updated results for the corrections to "Dashen's theorem" are presented.

Primary author

Prof. Claude Bernard (Washington University St. Louis)

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