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We calculate the magnetic dipole moment of the Delta(1232) and Omega^- baryons with 2+1-flavors of clover fermions on anisotropic lattices using a background magnetic field. This is the first dynamical calculation of these magnetic moments using a background field technique. The calculation for Omega^- is done at the physical strange quark mass, with the result in units of the physical nuclear magneton mu_Omega^-= -1.93(8)(12) (where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic) compared to the experimental number: -2.02(5). The Delta has been studied at three unphysical quark masses, corresponding to pion mass m_pi = 366, 438, and 548 MeV. The pion mass dependence is compared with the behavior obtained from chiral effective field theory.
We calculate the magnetic dipole moment of the Delta baryon using a background magnetic field on 2+1-flavors of clover fermions on anisotropic lattices. We focus on the finite volume effects that can be significant in background field studies, and thus we use two different spatial volumes in addition to several quark masses.
Background field methods provide an important nonperturbative formalism for the determination of hadronic properties which are complementary to matrix-element calculations. However, new challenges are encountered when utilising a fermion action exposed to additive mass renormalisations. In this case, the background field can induce an undesired field-dependent additive mass renormalisation that acts to change the quark mass as the background field is changed. For example, in a calculation utilising Wilson fermions in a uniform background magnetic field, the Wilson term introduced a field-dependent renormalisation to the quark mass which manifests itself in an unphysical increase of the neutral-pion mass for large magnetic fields. Herein, the clover fermion action is studied to determine the extent to which the removal of $mathcal{O}(a)$ discretisation errors suppresses the field-dependent changes to the quark mass. We illustrate how a careful treatment of nonperturbative improvement is necessary to resolve this artefact of the Wilson term. Using the $32^3 times 64$ dynamical-fermion lattices provided by the PACS-CS Collaboration we demonstrate how our technique suppresses the unphysical mass renormalisation over a broad range of magnetic field strengths.
Overlap fermions are a powerful tool for investigating the chiral and topological structure of the vacuum and the thermal states of QCD. We study various chiral and topological aspects of the finite temperature phase transition of N_f=2 flavours of O(a) improved Wilson fermions, using valence overlap fermions as a probe. Particular emphasis is placed upon the analysis of the spectral density and the localisation properties of the eigenmodes as well as on the local structure of topological charge fluctuations in the vicinity of the chiral phase transition. The calculations are done on 16^3x8 lattices generated by the DIK collaboration.
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