High-Precision Lattice QCD Confronts Experiment

C. T.H. Davies, E. Follana, A. Gray, G. P. Lepage, Q. Mason, M. Nobes, J. Shigemitsu, H. D. Trottier, M. Wingate, C. Aubin, C. Bernard, T. Burch, C. DeTar, Steven Gottlieb, E. B. Gregory, U. M. Heller, J. E. Hetrick, J. Osborn, R. Sugar, D. ToussaintM. Di Pierro, A. El-Khadra, A. S. Kronfeld, P. B. Mackenzie, D. Menscher, J. Simone

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Abstract

The recently developed Symanzik-improved staggered-quark discretization allows unquenched lattice-QCD simulations with much smaller (and more realistic) quark masses than previously possible. To test this formalism, we compare experiment with a variety of nonperturbative calculations in QCD drawn from a restricted set of “gold-plated” quantities. We find agreement to within statistical and systematic errors of [Formula presented] or less. We discuss the implications for phenomenology and, in particular, for heavy-quark physics.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)5
Number of pages1
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume92
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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