The strange and light quark contributions to the nucleon mass from Lattice QCD

Collaboration
Nov, 2011
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 85 (2012) 054502
e-Print:
Report number:
  • ADELAIDE-ADP-11-33-T755,
  • EDINBURGH-2011-33,
  • LIVERPOOL-LTH-930,
  • DESY-11-245

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We determine the strangeness and light quark fractions of the nucleon mass by computing the quark line connected and disconnected contributions to the matrix elements m_q in lattice QCD, using the non-perturbatively improved Sheikholeslami-Wohlert Wilson Fermionic action. We simulate n_F=2 mass degenerate sea quarks with a pion mass of about 285 MeV and a lattice spacing a approx 0.073 fm. The renormalization of the matrix elements involves mixing between contributions from different quark flavours. The pion-nucleon sigma-term is extrapolated to physical quark masses exploiting the sea quark mass dependence of the nucleon mass. We obtain the renormalized values \sigma_{\pi N} = 38(12) MeV at the physical point and f_{T_s}=\sigma_s/m_N= 0.012(14)^{+10}_{-3} for the strangeness contribution at our larger than physical sea quark mass.
Note:
  • 11 pages, 7 figures, v2: 1 reference added, some corrections
  • 12.38.Gc
  • 13.85.-t
  • 14.20.Dh
  • nucleon: mass
  • quark: mass
  • quark: mass dependence
  • fermion: Wilson
  • strangeness
  • renormalization
  • pi nucleon: sigma term