Dynamically-coupled partial-waves in isospin-2 scattering from lattice QCD
Feb 15, 2018
41 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 07 (2018) 043
- Published: Jul 6, 2018
e-Print:
- 1802.05580 [hep-lat]
DOI:
- 10.1007/JHEP07(2018)043 (publication)
Report number:
- DAMTP-2018-6,
- JLAB-THY-18-2643
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Abstract: (Springer)
We present the first determination of ρπ scattering, incorporating dynamically-coupled partial-waves, using lattice QCD, a first-principles numerical approach to QCD. Considering the case of isospin-2 ρπ, we calculate partial-wave amplitudes with J ≤ 3 and determine the degree of dynamical mixing between the coupled S and D-wave channels with J = 1. The analysis makes use of the relationship between scattering amplitudes and the discrete spectrum of states in the finite volume lattice. Constraints on the scattering amplitudes are provided by over one hundred energy levels computed on two lattice volumes at various overall momenta and in several irreducible representations of the relevant symmetry groups. The spectra follow from variational analyses of matrices of correlations functions computed with large bases of meson-meson operators. Calculations are performed with degenerate light and strange quarks tuned to the physical strange quark mass so that m ∼ 700 MeV, ensuring that the ρ is stable against strong decay. This work demonstrates the successful application of techniques, opening the door to calculations of scattering processes that incorporate the effects of dynamically-coupled partial-waves, including those involving resonances or bound states.Note:
- Minor changes to match the published version
- Lattice field theory simulation
- QCD Phenomenology
- spectrum: discrete
- quark: mass dependence
- scattering
- isospin: 2
- quantum chromodynamics
- lattice field theory
- partial wave
- correlation function
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