We present a lattice QCD study of the phase shift of $I{=}2$ $pipi$ scattering on the basis of two different approaches: the standard finite volume approach by Luscher and the recently introduced HAL QCD potential method. Quenched QCD simulations are
performed on lattices with extents $N_s{=}16,24,32,48$ and $N_t{=}128$ as well as lattice spacing $a{sim}0.115,mathrm{fm}$ and a pion mass of $m_pi{sim}940,mathrm{MeV}$. The phase shift and the scattering length are calculated in these two methods. In the potential method, the error is dominated by the systematic uncertainty associated with the violation of rotational symmetry due to finite lattice spacing. In Luschers approach, such systematic uncertainty is difficult to be evaluated and thus is not included in this work. A systematic uncertainty attributed to the quenched approximation, however, is not evaluated in both methods. In case of the potential method, the phase shift can be calculated for arbitrary energies below the inelastic threshold. The energy dependence of the phase shift is also obtained from Luschers method using different volumes and/or nonrest-frame extension of it. The results are found to agree well with the potential method.
We present a first attempt to determine nucleon-nucleon potentials in the parity-odd sector, which appear in 1P1, 3P0, 3P1, 3P2-3F2 channels, in Nf=2 lattice QCD simulations. These potentials are constructed from the Nambu-Bethe-Salpeter wave functio
ns for J^P=0^-, 1^- and 2^-, which correspond to A1^-, T1^- and T2^- + E^- representation of the cubic group, respectively. We have found a large and attractive spin-orbit potential VLS(r) in the isospin-triplet channel, which is qualitatively consistent with the phenomenological determination from the experimental scattering phase shifts. The potentials obtained from lattice QCD are used to calculate the scattering phase shifts in 1P1, 3P0, 3P1 and 3P2-3F2 channels. The strong attractive spin-orbit force and a weak repulsive central force in spin-triplet P-wave channels lead to an attraction in the 3P2 channel, which is related to the P-wave neutron paring in neutron stars.
Recently a new approach to calculate the nuclear potential from lattice QCD has been proposed. In the approach the nuclear potential is constructed from Bethe-Salpeter (BS) wave functons through the Schroedinger equation. The procedure leads to non-l
ocal but energy independent potential, which can be expanded in terms of local functions. In several recent applications of this method, local potentials, which correspond to the leading order (LO) terms of the expansion, are calculated from the BS wave function at E~0 MeV, where E is the center of mass energy. It is therefore important to check the validity of the LO approximation obtained at E~0. In this report, in order to check how well the LO approximation for the NN potentials works, we compare the LO potentials determined from the BS wave function at E~45 MeV with those at E~0 MeV in quenched QCD. We find that the difference of the LO potentials between two energies are not found wihin the statistical errors. This shows that the LO approximation for the potential is valid at low energies to describe the NN interactions.
We calculate potentials between a proton and a $Xi^0$ (hyperon with strangeness -2) through the equal-time Bethe-Salpeter wave function, employing quenched lattice QCD simulations with the plaquette gauge action and the Wilson quark action on (4.5 fm
)^4 lattice at the lattice spacing $a simeq 0.14$ fm. The ud quark mass in our study corresponds to $m_{pi}simeq 0.37$ and 0.51 GeV, while the s quark mass corresponds to the physical value of $m_K$. The central $p Xi^0$ potential has a strong (weak) repulsive core in the $^1S_0$ ($^3S_1$) channel for $r lsim 0.6$ fm, while the potential has attractive well at the medium and long distances (0.6 fm $lsim r lsim 1.2$ fm) in both channels. The sign of the $p Xi^0$ scattering length and its quark mass dependence indicate a net attraction in both channels at low energies.
The nuclear force acting between protons and neutrons is studied in the Monte Carlo simulations of the fundamental theory of the strong interaction, the quantum chromodynamics defined on the hypercubic space-time lattice. After a brief summary of the
empirical nucleon-nucleon (NN) potentials which can fit the NN scattering experiments in high precision, we outline the basic formulation to derive the potential between the extended objects such as the nucleons composed of quarks. The equal-time Bethe-Salpeter amplitude is a key ingredient for defining the NN potential on the lattice. We show the results of the numerical simulations on a $32^4$ lattice with the lattice spacing $a simeq 0.137 $fm (lattice volume (4.4 fm)$^4$) in the quenched approximation. The calculation was carried out using the massively parallel computer Blue Gene/L at KEK. We found that the calculated NN potential at low energy has basic features expected from the empirical NN potentials; attraction at long and medium distances and the repulsive core at short distance. Various future directions along this line of research are also summarized.
We present simulation details and results for the light hadron spectrum in N f = 2 + 1 lattice QCD with the nonperturbatively O(a)-improved Wilson quark action and the Iwasaki gauge action. Simulations are carried out at a lattice spacing of 0.09 fm
on a (2.9fm)^3 box using the PACS-CS computer. We employ the Luschers domain-decomposed HMC algorithm with several improvements to reduce the degenerate up-down quark mass toward the physical value. So far the resulting pseudoscalar meson mass is ranging from 702MeV down to 156MeV. We discuss on the stability and the efficiency of the algorithm. The light harden spectrum extrapolated at the physical point is compared with the experimental values. We also present the values of the quark masses and the pseudoscalar meson decay constants.
We investigate the quark mass dependence of meson and baryon masses obtained from 2+1 flavor dynamical quark simulations performed by the PACS-CS Collaboration. With the use of SU(2) and SU(3) chiral perturbation theories up to NLO, we examine the ch
iral behavior of the pseudoscalar meson masses and the decay constants in terms of the degenerate up-down quark mass ranging form 3 MeV to 24 MeV and two choices of the strange quark mass around the physical value. We discuss the convergence of the SU(2) and SU(3) chiral expansions and present the results for the low energy constants. We find that the SU(3) expansion is not convergent at NLO for the physical strange quark mass. The chiral behavior of the nucleon mass is also discussed based on the SU(2) heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory up to NNLO. Our results show that the expansion is well behaved only up to m_pi^2 ~ 0.2 GeV^2.
A new analysis is performed in QCD sum rule for the lightest negative parity baryon Lambda (1405). Mixings of three-quark and five-quark Fock components are taken into account. Terms containing up to dimension 12 condensates are computed in the opera
tor product expansion. It is found that the sum rule gives much stronger coupling of Lambda* to the five-quark operator so that the five-quark components occupy about 90% of Lambda (1405).
The International Lattice Datagrid (ILDG) is a federation of several regional grids. Since most of these grids have reached production level, an increasing number of lattice scientists start to benefit from this new research infrastructure. The ILDG
Middleware Working Group has the task of specifying the ILDG middleware such that interoperability among the different grids is achieved. In this paper we will present the architecture of the ILDG middleware and describe what has actually been achieved in recent years. Particular focus is given to interoperability and security issues. We will conclude with a short overview on issues which we plan to address in the near future.
We calculate $pXi^0$ potentials from the equal-time Bethe-Salpeter amplitude measured in the quenched QCD simulation with the spatial lattice volume, (4.4 fm)$^3$. The standard Wilson gauge action with the gauge coupling $beta=5.7$ on $32^4$ lattice
together with the standard Wilson quark action are used. The hopping parameter $kappa_{ud}=0.1678$ is chosen for $u$ and $d$ quarks, which corresponds to $m_{pi}simeq 0.37$ GeV. The physical strange quark mass is used by taking the parameter $kappa_s=0.1643$ which is deduced from the physical $K$ meson mass. The lattice spacing $a=0.1420$ fm is determined by the physical $rho$ meson mass. We find that the $pXi^0$ potential has strong spin dependence. Strong repulsive core is found in $^1S_0$ channel while the effective central potential in the $^3S_1$ channel has relatively weak repulsive core. The potentials also have weak attractive parts in the medium to long distance region (0.6 fm $lsim r lsim 1.2$ fm) in both of the $^1S_0$ and $^3S_1$ channels.
