We have constructed a new fermion action which is an approximation to the (chirally symmetric) Fixed-Point action, containing the full Clifford algebra with couplings inside a hypercube and paths built from renormalization group inspired fat links. We present an exploratory study of the light hadron spectrum and the energy-momentum dispersion relation.
We report on the pion-pion scattering length in the I=2 channel using the parametrized fixed point action. Pion masses of 320 MeV were reached in this quenched calculation of the scattering length.
We present the first set of quenched QCD measurements using the recently parametrized fixed-point Dirac operator D^FP. We also give a general and practical construction of covariant densities and conserved currents for chiral lattice actions. The measurements include (a) hadron spectroscopy, (b) corrections of small chiral deviations, (c) the renormalized quark condensate from finite-size scaling and, independently, spectroscopy, (d) the topological susceptibility, (e) small eigenvalue distributions and random matrix theory, and (f) local chirality of near-zero modes and instanton-dominance.
We present first results from calculations using O(a) improved (FNAL) space-time asymmetric action on a 12^3 x 24 quenched lattice at beta = 5.7 and c_SW = 1.57. The asymmetry parameter is determined non-perturbatively from the energy-momentum dispersion relation. This improvement scheme is mass dependent, and the calculations have been done in the charm and bottom quark mass sectors since it is at these heavier masses that the asymmetry is expected to be relevant.
Lattice QCD calculations of baryon forces are performed for the first time with (almost) physical quark masses. $N_f = 2+1$ dynamical clover fermion gauge configurations are generated at the lattice spacing of $a simeq 0.085$ fm on a $(96 a)^4 simeq (8.2 {rm fm})^4$ lattice with quark masses corresponding to $(m_pi, m_K) simeq (146, 525)$ MeV. Baryon forces are calculated using the time-dependent HAL QCD method. In this report, we study $XiXi$ and $NN$ systems both in $^1S_0$ and $^3S_1$-$^3D_1$ channels, and the results for the central and tensor forces as well as phase shifts in the $XiXi$ $(^1S_0)$ channel are presented.
The topological charge distribution P(Q) is calculated for lattice ${rm CP}^{N-1}$ models. In order to suppress lattice cut-off effects we employ a fixed point (FP) action. Through transformation of P(Q) we calculate the free energy $F(theta)$ as a function of the $theta$ parameter. For N=4, scaling behavior is observed for P(Q), $F(theta)$ as well as the correlation lengths $xi(Q)$. For N=2, however, scaling behavior is not observed as expected. For comparison, we also make a calculation for the ${rm CP}^{3}$ model with standard action. We furthermore pay special attention to the behavior of P(Q) in order to investigate the dynamics of instantons. For that purpose, we carefully look at behavior of $gamma_{it eff}$, which is an effective power of P(Q)($sim exp(-CQ^{gamma_{it eff}})$), and reflects the local behavior of P(Q) as a function of Q. We study $gamma_{it eff}$ for two cases, one of which is the dilute gas approximation based on the Poisson distribution of instantons and the other is the Debye-Huckel approximation of instanton quarks. In both cases we find similar behavior to the one observed in numerical simulations.