First physics results at the physical pion mass from Nf=2 Wilson twisted mass fermions at maximal twist

A. Abdel-Rehim, C. Alexandrou, F. Burger, M. Constantinou, P. Dimopoulos, R. Frezzotti, K. Hadjiyiannakou, C. Helmes, K. Jansen, C. Jost, C. Kallidonis, B. Knippschild, B. Kostrzewa, G. Koutsou, L. Liu, M. Mangin-Brinet, K. Ottnad, M. Petschlies, G. Pientka, G. C. Rossi, C. Urbach, U. Wenger, and M. Werner
Phys. Rev. D 95, 094515 – Published 31 May 2017

Abstract

We present physics results from simulations of QCD using Nf=2 dynamical Wilson twisted mass fermions at the physical value of the pion mass. These simulations are enabled by the addition of the clover term to the twisted mass quark action. We show evidence that compared to previous simulations without this term, the pion mass splitting due to isospin breaking is almost completely eliminated. Using this new action, we compute the masses and decay constants of pseudoscalar mesons involving the dynamical up and down as well as valence strange and charm quarks at one value of the lattice spacing, a0.09fm. Further, we determine renormalized quark masses as well as their scale-independent ratios, in excellent agreement with other lattice determinations in the continuum limit. In the baryon sector, we show that the nucleon mass is compatible with its physical value and that the masses of the Δ baryons do not show any sign of isospin breaking. Finally, we compute the electron, muon and tau lepton anomalous magnetic moments and show the results to be consistent with extrapolations of older ETMC data to the continuum and physical pion mass limits. We mostly find remarkably good agreement with phenomenology, even though we cannot take the continuum and thermodynamic limits.

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  • Received 4 January 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.094515

© 2017 American Physical Society

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Authors & Affiliations

A. Abdel-Rehim1, C. Alexandrou1,2, F. Burger3, M. Constantinou1,2, P. Dimopoulos4,5, R. Frezzotti4, K. Hadjiyiannakou1, C. Helmes6, K. Jansen3, C. Jost6, C. Kallidonis1, B. Knippschild6, B. Kostrzewa3,7,*, G. Koutsou1,2, L. Liu6, M. Mangin-Brinet8, K. Ottnad6,†, M. Petschlies6, G. Pientka7, G. C. Rossi4,5, C. Urbach6, U. Wenger9, and M. Werner6

  • 1CaSToRC, The Cyprus Institute, 2121 Aglantzia, Nicosia, Cyprus
  • 2Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
  • 3NIC, DESY, Zeuthen, Platanenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
  • 4Dipartimento di Fisica, Università and INFN di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Roma, Italy
  • 5Centro Fermi, Piazza del Viminale 1, 00184 Roma, Italy
  • 6HISKP (Theory), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Nußallee 14-16, 53115 Bonn, Germany
  • 7Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Newtonstrasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
  • 8Theory Group, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, 38026 Grenoble, France
  • 9Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland

  • *bartosz.kostrzewa@desy.de; Present address: HISKP (Theory), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Nußallee 14-16, 53115 Bonn, Germany.
  • Present address: Institut für Kernphysik, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Johann-Joachim-Becher-Weg 45, 55128 Mainz, Germany.

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Vol. 95, Iss. 9 — 1 May 2017

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