We present results for several light hadronic quantities ($f_pi$, $f_K$, $B_K$, $m_{ud}$, $m_s$, $t_0^{1/2}$, $w_0$) obtained from simulations of 2+1 flavor domain wall lattice QCD with large physical volumes and nearly-physical pion masses at two la
ttice spacings. We perform a short, O(3)%, extrapolation in pion mass to the physical values by combining our new data in a simultaneous chiral/continuum `global fit with a number of other ensembles with heavier pion masses. We use the physical values of $m_pi$, $m_K$ and $m_Omega$ to determine the two quark masses and the scale - all other quantities are outputs from our simulations. We obtain results with sub-percent statistical errors and negligible chiral and finite-volume systematics for these light hadronic quantities, including: $f_pi$ = 130.2(9) MeV; $f_K$ = 155.5(8) MeV; the average up/down quark mass and strange quark mass in the $bar {rm MS}$ scheme at 3 GeV, 2.997(49) and 81.64(1.17) MeV respectively; and the neutral kaon mixing parameter, $B_K$, in the RGI scheme, 0.750(15) and the $bar{rm MS}$ scheme at 3 GeV, 0.530(11).
We present our results for the on-shell Delta I = 3/2 kaon decay matrix elements using domain wall fermions and the DBW2 gauge action at one coarse lattice spacing corresponding to 1/a = 1.31 GeV in the quenched approximation. The on-shell matrix ele
ments are evaluated in two different frames: the center-of-mass frame and non-zero total-momentum frame. We employ the formula proposed by Lellouch and Luscher in the center-of-mass frame, and its extension for non-zero total momentum frame to extract the infinite volume, on-shell, center-of-mass frame decay amplitudes. We determine the decay amplitude at the physical pion mass and momentum from the chiral extrapolation and an interpolation of the relative momentum using the results calculated in the two frames. We have obtained Re(A_2) = 1.66(23)(^{+48}_{-03})(^{+53}_{-0}) x 10^{-8} GeV and Im(A_2) = -1.181(26)(^{+141}_{-014})(^{+44}_{-0}) x 10^{-12} GeV at the physical point, using the data at the relatively large pion mass, m_pi > 0.35 GeV. The first error is statistic, and the second and third are systematic. The second error is estimated with several fits of the chiral extrapolation including (quenched) chiral perturbation formula at next to leading order using only lighter pion masses. The third one is estimated with an analysis using the lattice dispersion relation. The result of Re(A_2) is reasonably consistent with experiment.
Renormalization conditions imposed on quark bilinear vertex functions in the conventional RI/MOM scheme use exceptional momentum configurations. With practical values for the lattice cutoff, these vertex functions are contaminated with unwanted low e
nergy physics (pion pole, zero modes, etc), which is a large source of systematic error. These effects can be reduced by using non-exceptional momenta. We discuss the quark mass renormalization with non-exceptional momenta using 2+1 flavor domain wall fermions based on a recently proposed RI/SMOM scheme.
We describe details of 1/a ~ 2.2Gev, L ~ 3 fm dynamical domain wall fermion simulations which will allow us to do a more systematic continuum extrapolation in combination with existing simu- lations. Details of the simulations such as algorithm choic
es and machine performance, as well as results of basic measurements are presented. These configurations are presently being generated on the QCDOC machine at Edinburgh and the DOE QCDOC machine at Brookhaven as part of a joint project with LHPC.
