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Publications (117)

hep-lat2002

Masses of singlet and non-singlet 0++ particles

UKQCD Collaboration, Alistair Hart, Craig McNeile +1

We compute the mass of the singlet 0++ state using both (psi_bar psi) and Wilson loop operators from a N_f=2 lattice QCD calculation.

hep-lat1992

The Hyperfine Splitting in Charmonium: Lattice Computations Using the Wilson and Clover Fermion Actions

UKQCD Collaboration, C. R. Allton, C. T. Sachrajda +10

We compute the hyperfine splitting on the lattice, using both the Wilson and -improved (clover) actions for quenched quarks. The computations are performe…

hep-lat1994

The Nature of the Hadronic String

UKQCD Collaboration, C. Michael, P. W. Stephenson

We study a closed hadronic string using pure glue lattice simulation. We measure the energy of the flux state encircling the periodic boundary condition (the torelon). From these d…

hep-lat2002

The Charge and Matter radial distributions of Heavy-Light mesons calculated on a lattice with dynamical fermions

UKQCD Collaboration, A. M. Green, J. Koponen +2

A knowledge of the radial distributions of quarks inside hadrons could lead to a better understanding of the QCD description of these hadrons and possibly suggest forms for phenome…

hep-lat2001

Effects of non-perturbatively improved dynamical fermions in QCD at fixed lattice spacing

UKQCD Collaboration, C. R. Allton, S. P. Booth +17

We present results for the static inter-quark potential, lightest glueballs, light hadron spectrum and topological susceptibility using a non-perturbatively improved action on a $1…

hep-lat2002

The eta and eta' mesons in QCD

UKQCD Collaboration, C. McNeile, C. Michael

We study the flavour singlet pseudoscalar mesons from first principles using lattice QCD. We explore the quark content of the and mesons and we discuss their decay const…

hep-lat2000

String breaking in zero-temperature lattice QCD

UKQCD Collaboration, P. Pennanen, C. Michael

The crossing from a static quark-antiquark system to a system of two static-light mesons when the separation of the static quarks is increased is calculated in zero-temperature lat…

hep-lat2014

Domain Wall QCD with Near-Physical Pions

RBC Collaboration, UKQCD Collaboration, R. Arthur +16

We present physical results for a variety of light hadronic quantities obtained via a combined analysis of three 2+1 flavour domain wall fermion ensemble sets. For two of our ensem…

hep-lat1997

Lattice-Constrained Parametrizations of Form Factors for Semileptonic and Rare Radiative B Decays

UKQCD Collaboration, Luigi Del Debbio, Jonathan M. Flynn +2

We describe the form factors for B to rho lepton neutrino and B to K* gamma decays with just two parameters and the two form factors for B to pi lepton neutrino with a further two…

hep-lat2006

The decay constant of the first excited pion from lattice QCD

UKQCD Collaboration, C. McNeile, C. Michael

We review the theory that predicts that the decay constant of the excited light pseudo-scalar mesons are suppressed in the chiral limit relative to the pion decay constant. We comp…

hep-lat1999

Feasibility study of using the overlap-Dirac operator for hadron spectroscopy

UKQCD Collaboration, Craig McNeile, Alan Irving +1

We investigate a number of algorithms that calculate the quark propagators for the overlap-Dirac fermion operator. The QCD simulations were performed at beta = 5.9 with a lattice v…

hep-lat1992

Charmed Meson Spectroscopy and Matrix Elements with an O(a)-Improved Clover Fermion Action

UKQCD Collaboration, presented by David Richards

We present preliminary results for the spectrum and decay matrix elements for heavy-light and heavy-heavy mesons, obtained on the 64-node Meiko Computing Surface at the University…

hep-lat2000

N* Spectrum using an O(a)-Improved Fermion Action

LHPC Collaboration, UKQCD Collaboration, D. G. Richards

The construction of operators and calculational methods for the determination of the N* spectrum are discussed. The masses of the parity partners of the nucleon and delta are compu…

hep-lat2001

The Charge and Matter radial distributions of Heavy-Light mesons calculated on a lattice

UKQCD Collaboration, A. M. Green, J. Koponen +2

For a heavy-light meson with a static heavy quark, we can explore the light quark distribution. The charge and matter radial distributions of these heavy-light mesons are measured…

hep-lat1998

Determination of constant lattice spacing trajectories in lattice QCD

Alan C. Irving, UKQCD Collaboration

We argue that lattice simulations of full QCD with varying quark mass are best conducted at fixed lattice spacing rather than at fixed . We present techniques which enable this…

hep-ph1995

Lattice Study of the Decay B^0-bar -> rho^+ l^- nu_l-bar: Model-Independent Determination of |V_{ub}|

UKQCD Collaboration, J M Flynn, J Nieves +9

We present results of a lattice computation of the vector and axial-vector current matrix elements relevant for the semileptonic decay B^0-bar -> rho^+ l^- nu_l-bar. The computatio…

hep-lat2002

Negative-parity Baryon Masses using an O(a)-improved Fermion Action

LHPC Collaboration, QCDSF Collaboration, UKQCD Collaboration +7

We present a calculation of the mass of the lowest-lying negative-parity J=1/2- state in quenched QCD. Results are obtained using a non-perturbatively O(a)-improved clover fermion…

hep-lat1998

Light hadron spectroscopy with O(a) improved dynamical fermions

UKQCD Collaboration, C. R. Allton, S. P. Booth +12

We present the first results for the static quark potential and the light hadron spectrum using dynamical fermions at using an O(a) improved Wilson fermion action together…

hep-lat2002

Hybrid meson decay from the lattice

UKQCD Collaboration, C. McNeile, C. Michael +1

We discuss the allowed decays of a hybrid meson in the heavy quark limit. We deduce that an important decay will be into a heavy quark non-hybrid state and a light quark meson, in…

hep-lat2004

Phenomenology of static-light mesons from unquenched lattice QCD calculations

UKQCD Collaboration, Craig McNeile, Chris Michael +1

We present results for the static-light meson from unquenched lattice QCD. The unquenched gauge configurations were generated using the non-perturbatively improved clover action. A…

hep-lat2001

The flavour singlet mesons in QCD

UKQCD Collaboration, C. McNeile, C. Michael +1

We study the flavour singlet mesons from first principles using lattice QCD. We explore the splitting between flavour singlet and non-singlet for vector and axial mesons as well as…

hep-lat2000

Mixing of scalar glueballs and flavour-singlet scalar mesons

UKQCD Collaboration, Craig McNeile, Chris Michael

We discuss in detail the extraction of hadronic mixing strengths from lattice studies. We apply this to the mixing of a scalar glueball and a scalar meson in the quenched approxima…

hep-lat1999

An Investigation of the Soft Pion Relation in Quenched Lattice QCD

UKQCD Collaboration, K. C. Bowler, C. M. Maynard +6

A lattice determination of the form factor and decay constants for the semileptonic decay of heavy pseudoscalar (PS) mesons at zero recoil is presented from which the soft pion rel…

hep-lat2000

Light quark masses for dynamical, non-perturbatively O(a) improved Wilson fermions

D. Pleiter, QCDSF Collaboration, UKQCD Collaboration

We present results for the light quark masses in lattice QCD with two degenerate flavours of dynamical fermions. We used configurations generated by the UKQCD and QCDSF collaborati…

hep-lat2000

Quenched QCD with O(a) improvement: I. The spectrum of light hadrons

UKQCD Collaboration, K. C. Bowler, P. Boyle +9

We present a comprehensive study of the masses of pseudoscalar and vector mesons, as well as octet and decuplet baryons computed in O(a) improved quenched lattice QCD. Results have…

hep-lat1998

Hadrons with a heavy colour-adjoint particle

UKQCD Collaboration, M. Foster, C. Michael

We discuss the spectrum of hadrons with a heavy colour-adjoint particle - motivated by the gluino of supersymmetry. Using the lattice approach, we explore in detail the gluonic bou…

hep-lat1993

: Penguins on the Lattice

UKQCD Collaboration

We calculate the leading-order matrix element for the decay in the quenched approximation of lattice QCD on a lattice at , using an O(a)-imp…

hep-lat2002

Excited nucleon spectrum using a non-perturbatively improved clover fermion action

LHPC Collaboration, D. G. Richards, QCDSF Collaboration +8

We discuss the extraction of negative-parity baryon masses from lattice QCD calculations. The mass of the lowest-lying negative-parity state is computed in quenched l…

hep-lat1998

Results From The UKQCD Parallel Tempering Project

Balint Joo, UKQCD Collaboration

We present results from our study of the Parallel Tempering algorithm. We examine the swapping acceptance rate of a twin subensemble PT system. We use action matching technology in…

hep-ph2002

Standard Model Matrix Elements for Neutral B-Meson Mixing and Associated Decay Constants

UKQCD Collaboration, Laurent Lellouch, C. -J. David Lin

We present results of quenched lattice calculations of the matrix elements relevant for B_d-\bar B_d and B_s-\bar B_s mixing in the Standard Model. Results for the corresponding SU…

hep-lat2007

Chiral Limit and Light Quark Masses in 2+1 Flavor Domain Wall QCD

UKQCD Collaboration, M. F. Lin, E. E. Scholz

We present results for meson masses and decay constants measured on 24^3x64 lattices using the domain wall fermion formulation with an extension of the fifth dimension of L_s=16 fo…

hep-lat1992

The Running Coupling from SU(3) Potentials

UKQCD Collaboration

From an accurate determination of the inter-quark potential, one can study the running coupling constant for a range of -values and hence estimate the scale $Λ_{\overline{\rm M…

hep-lat2003

The mass of the charm quark from unquenched lattice QCD at fixed lattice spacing

UKQCD Collaboration, A. Dougall, C. M. Maynard +1

We determine the mass of the charm quark () from lattice QCD with two flavors of dynamical quarks with a mass around the strange quark. We compare this to a determination in q…

hep-lat1993

The Isgur-Wise Function: A Lattice Determination from Pseudoscalar --> Pseudoscalar Form Factors

UKQCD Collaboration, James N. Simone

Form factors for pseudoscalar --> pseudoscalar decays of heavy-light mesons are found in quenched lattice QCD with heavy-quark masses in the range of approximately 1-2 GeV. The Isg…

hep-lat2002

Light quark masses from UKQCD's dynamical simulations with O(a)-improved Wilson fermions

D. J. Hepburn, UKQCD Collaboration

I present preliminary results on the light quark masses from a partially quenched analysis of UKQCD's dynamical datasets.

hep-lat1994

An ``Improved" Lattice Study of Semi-leptonic Decays of D-Mesons

UKQCD Collaboration

We present results of a lattice computation of the matrix elements of the vector and axial-vector currents which are relevant for the semi-leptonic decays and $D…

hep-lat2006

Light meson masses and non-perturbative renormalisation in 2+1 flavour domain wall QCD

C. Allton, D. J. Antonio, P. A. Boyle +13

We present results for the light meson masses, the bare strange quark mass and preliminary non-perturbative renormalisation of B_K in 2+1 flavour domain wall QCD. The ensembles use…

hep-lat1996

Quenched Light Hadron Spectrum and Decay Constants using Improved Wilson Fermion Actions

UKQCD Collaboration, presented by Richard Kenway

We compare results obtained using the Sheikholeslami-Wohlert (SW) fermion action with tree-level and tadpole-improved coefficients for .

hep-lat2004

Searching for chiral logs in the static-light decay constant

UKQCD Collaboration, C McNeile, C. Michael

Using the clover fermion action in unquenched QCD with pion masses as low as 420 MeV, we look for evidence for chiral logs in the static-light decay constant. There is some evidenc…

hep-lat1997

Block Algorithms for Quark Propagator Calculation

Stephen M. Pickles, UKQCD Collaboration

Computing quark propagators in lattice QCD is equivalent to solving large, sparse linear systems with multiple right-hand sides. Block algorithms attempt to accelerate the converge…

hep-lat2002

Improved Wilson QCD simulations at light quark masses

A. C. Irving, UKQCD Collaboration

We present preliminary results from UKQCD simulations at light quark masses using two flavours of non-pertubatively improved Wilson fermions. We report on the performance of the st…

hep-lat2001

The strangeness content of the nucleon

C. Michael, C. McNeile, D. Hepburn +1

We evaluate the matrix element of in hadron states on a lattice. We find substantial mixing of the connected and disconnected contributions so that the lattice result t…

nucl-th2002

Lattice Calculation of Baryon Masses using the Clover Fermion Action

LHPC Collaboration, D. G. Richards, QCDSF Collaboration +8

We present a calculation of the lowest-lying baryon masses in the quenched approximation to QCD. The calculations are performed using a non-perturbatively improved clover fermion a…

hep-lat2000

The radial wavefunctions of a heavy-light meson calculated on a lattice

UKQCD Collaboration, A. M. Green, J. Koponen +2

A brief review is given of attempts to understand the energies of four-quark systems calculated on a lattice in terms of nuclear-physics-inspired many-body techniques involving int…

hep-lat2005

Light meson masses and decay constants in 2+1 flavour domain wall QCD

D. J. Antonio, K. C. Bowler, P. A. Boyle +9

We present results for light meson masses and psedoscalar meson decay constants in 2+1 flavour domain wall QCD with the DBW2 and Iwasaki gauge actions, using lattices with linear s…

hep-lat2001

On the glueball spectrum in O(a)-improved lattice QCD

UKQCD Collaboration, A. Hart, M. Teper

We calculate the light `glueball' mass spectrum in N_f=2 lattice QCD using a fermion action that is non-perturbatively O(a) improved. We work at lattice spacings a ~0.1 fm and with…

hep-lat1992

Quenched Light Hadron Spectroscopy: Comparing the Wilson and O(a)-Improved Fermion Actions

UKQCD Collaboration, presented by Alan D. Simpson

We have studied the light hadron spectrum and decay constants for quenched QCD at beta=6.2 on a 24^3x48 lattice. We compare the results obtained using a nearest-neighbour O(a)-impr…

hep-lat2004

P-wave Radial distributions of a Heavy-light meson on a lattice

UKQCD Collaboration, A. M. Green, J. Koponen +1

This is a follow-up to our earlier work for the charge (vector) and matter (scalar) distributions for S-wave states in a heavy-light meson, where the heavy quark is static and the…

hep-lat1997

First Lattice Study of Semileptonic Decays of Lambda_b and Xi_b Baryons

UKQCD Collaboration, K. C. Bowler, R. D. Kenway +7

We present the results of the first lattice study of semileptonic decays of baryons containing a b-quark. Predictions for the decay distributions are given and the Isgur-Wise funct…

hep-lat2003

Hadronic decays from the lattice

UKQCD Collaboration, C. Michael, C. McNeile

We discuss strategies to determine hadronic decay couplings from lattice studies. As an application, we explore the decay of a vector meson to two pseudoscalar mesons with

hep-lat1998

Delta S=2 and Delta I=3/2 Matrix Elements in Quenched QCD

Laurent Lellouch, C. -J. David Lin, UKQCD Collaboration

We present preliminary results for B_K, B_7^{3/2} and B_8^{3/2} from two high-statistics lattice computations. These calculations are performed at beta=6.0 and 6.2 in the quenched…

hep-lat2007

Nucleon form factors and structure functions with N_f=2+1 dynamical domain wall fermions

UKQCD Collaboration, Takeshi Yamazaki, Shigemi Ohta

We report isovector form factors and low moments of structure functions of nucleon in numerical lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) from the on-going calculations by the RIKEN-BNL…

hep-lat2001

Semileptonic decay of a heavy-light pseudoscalar to a light vector meson

UKQCD Collaboration, J. Gill

We present the results of a calculation of semileptonic form factors of D and B mesons. The calculation uses nonperturbatively order a improved quenched lattice QCD and two values…

hep-lat2004

Exploratory spectrum calculations using overlap valence quarks on a staggered sea

UKQCD Collaboration, K. C. Bowler, B. Joó +3

We present exploratory results for the hadron mass spectrum and pseudoscalar meson decay constants using mixed actions. We use improved staggered sea quarks and HYP-smeared overlap…

hep-lat1993

Heavy-light physics with NRQCD

UKQCD Collaboration

First results are obtained for B mesons using a heavy propagator calculated using NRQCD, and a light Wilson propagator. Results from 13 quenched configurations of size 16^3 x 48 at…

hep-lat1993

Quenched Heavy-Light Decay Constants

Hartmut Wittig, UKQCD Collaboration

We present decay constants from a quenched simulation using both propagating quarks and the static theory at on . The results using propagating quarks are us…

hep-lat2004

The charm quark mass with dynamical fermions

UKQCD Collaboration, A. Dougall, C. M. Maynard +1

We compute the charm quark mass in lattice QCD and compare different formulations of the heavy quark, and quenched data to that with dynamical sea quarks. We take the continuum lim…

hep-lat2002

Semi-leptonic decays of heavy mesons and the Isgur-Wise function in quenched lattice QCD

UKQCD Collaboration, K. C. Bowler, G. Douglas +3

The form factors for the semi-leptonic B->D and B->D* decays are evaluated in quenched lattice QCD at two different values of the coupling, beta=6.0 and 6.2. The action and the ope…

hep-lat1992

Gauge Invariant Smearing and Matrix Correlators using Wilson Fermions at beta=6.2

UKQCD Collaboration

We present an investigation of gauge invariant smearing for Wilson fermions on a lattice at . We demonstrate a smearing algorithm that allows a substantia…

hep-lat1997

The effect of tree-level and mean-field improvement on the light-hadron spectrum in quenched QCD

UKQCD Collaboration, H. P. Shanahan, C. T. H. Davies +10

We compute the light hadron mass spectrum at beta=5.7 using the O(a) improved Sheikholeslami-Wohlert (SW) fermion action with two choices of the clover coefficient: the classical v…

hep-lat2001

Light hadron spectrum using an O(a)-improved Wilson action with two dynamical quark flavours

Derek J. Hepburn, UKQCD Collaboration

I present results of recent work for the UKQCD Collaboration on the light hadron spectrum using a non-perturbatively O(a)-improved Wilson action with two degenerate flavours of dyn…

hep-lat1999

UKQCD's latest results for the static quark potential and light hadron spectrum with O(a) improved dynamical fermions

UKQCD Collaboration, J. Garden

We present UKQCD's latest results for the static quark potential and light hadron spectrum obtained from matched simulations using two flavours of dynamical quarks. We report that…

hep-lat1994

Geometrical Volume Effects in the Computation of the Slope of the Isgur-Wise Function

UKQCD Collaboration

We use a method recently suggested for evaluating the slope of the Isgur-Wise function, at the zero-recoil point, on the lattice. The computations are performed in the quenched app…

hep-lat1998

Tuning Actions and Observables in Lattice QCD

Alan C. Irving, James C. Sexton, Eamonn Cahill +5

We propose a strategy for conducting lattice QCD simulations at fixed volume but variable quark mass so as to investigate the physical effects of dynamical fermions. We present det…

hep-lat1993

The Light Hadron Spectrum and Decay Constants in Quenched Lattice QCD

UKQCD Collaboration

We present results for light hadrons composed of both degenerate and non-degenerate quarks in quenched lattice QCD. We calculate masses and decay constants using 60 gauge configura…

hep-lat1997

Upsilon Spectrum from NRQCD with Improved Action

UKQCD Collaboration, T. Manke, I. T. Drummond +2

We explore the effect of higher order operators in the non-relativistic formulation of QCD (NRQCD). We calculated masses in the b \bar b spectrum using quenched gauge configuration…

hep-lat1997

Heavy Hybrids from NRQCD

UKQCD Collaboration, T. Manke, I. T. Drummond +2

We present a quenched lattice calculation for the lowest lying -hybrid states in the framework of NRQCD using the leading order Hamiltonian up to . We d…

hep-lat1995

Mass splittings and matrix elements of mesons and baryons containing a single heavy quark

UKQCD Collaboration, presented by David Richards

We present a study in the quenched approximation of the parameter and the decay constant using heavy-quark propagators implemented in the static approximation, and…

hep-lat1993

Quenched Light Hadron Mass Spectrum and Decay Constants: the effects of -Improvement at

UKQCD Collaboration

We compare the light hadron spectrum and decay constants for quenched QCD at using an -improved nearest-neighbour Wilson fermion action with those obtained using the…

hep-lat2003

Hadronic decay of a vector meson from the lattice

UKQCD Collaboration, C. McNeile, C. Michael

We explore the decay of a vector meson to two pseudoscalar mesons on the lattice with flavours of sea quark. Although we are working with quark masses that do not allow a p…

hep-lat1998

Maximal variance reduction for stochastic propagators with applications to the static quark spectrum

UKQCD Collaboration, C. Michael, J. Peisa

We study a new method -- maximal variance reduction -- for reducing the variance of stochastic estimators for quark propagators. We find that while this method is comparable to usu…

hep-lat1997

Hybrid Quarkonia with High Statistics from NRQCD

UKQCD Collaboration, T. Manke, I. T. Drummond +2

We have studied the O(mv^6) effects in NRQCD on the spectrum of heavy quarkonia and compare our results for different lattices (quenched and dynamical). We also report on an invest…

hep-ph1996

First Lattice Study of the Form Factors A_0 and A_3 in the Decay Bbar^0 to rho^+ l^- nubar_l

UKQCD Collaboration, J M Flynn, J Nieves

We report on a lattice calculation of the form factors A_0 and A_3 for the pseudoscalar to vector meson semileptonic decay Bbar^0 to rho^+ l^- nubar_l. We find that resonant (or po…

hep-lat2000

Leptonic and semi-leptonic B decays

UKQCD Collaboration, C. M. Maynard

We present results for the semi-leptonic and leptonic decays of B mesons. These non-perturbative matrix elements are important for constraining the CKM matrix. Results are presente…

hep-lat2003

Excited B mesons from the lattice

UKQCD Collaboration, A. M. Green, J. Koponen +3

We determine the energies of the excited states of a heavy-light meson , with a static heavy quark and light quark with mass approximately that of the strange quark from…

hep-lat2000

Instability in the Molecular Dynamics Step of Hybrid Monte Carlo in Dynamical Fermion Lattice QCD Simulations

Balint Joo, Brian Pendleton, Anthony D. Kennedy +5

We investigate instability and reversibility within Hybrid Monte Carlo simulations using a non-perturbatively improved Wilson action. We demonstrate the onset of instability as tol…

hep-lat2001

Radial Correlations between two quarks

UKQCD Collaboration, A. M. Green, J. Koponen +2

In nuclear many-body problems the short-range correlation between two nucleons is well described by the corresponding correlation in the {two}-body problem. Therefore, as a first s…

hep-lat2004

An unquenched lattice QCD calculation of the mass of the bottom quark

UKQCD Collaboration, C. McNeile, C. Michael +1

We compute the b quark mass from dynamical lattice QCD with clover quarks. The calculation is done at a fixed lattice spacing with sea quark masses as low as half the strange quark…

hep-lat1999

The Isgur Wise function from the Lattice

UKQCD Collaboration, G. Douglas

We derive the form factors relevant for decays of pseudo-scalar mesons corresponding to the semi-leptonic decay B->D l nu. The simulations are performed in the quenched approximati…

hep-lat1997

Heavy Meson Spectroscopy at Beta=6.0

P. Boyle, UKQCD Collaboration

We present results of a quenched calculation of the heavy-light and quarkonium spectrum using the tadpole improved clover action. We resolve completely the triplet chi P-states in…

hep-lat2006

Decay constants of P-wave heavy-light mesons from unquenched lattice QCD

UKQCD Collaboration, G. Herdoiza, C. McNeile +1

We review some decays that require knowledge of the decay constants of heavy-light mesons. We compute the decay constants of P-wave heavy-light mesons from unquenched latti…

hep-lat1993

Quenched Heavy-Light Decay Constants

UKQCD Collaboration

We present results for heavy-light decay constants, using both propagating quarks and the static approximation, in O(a)-improved, quenched lattice QCD. At beta=6.2 on a 24^3x48 lat…

hep-lat2004

An estimate of the flavour singlet contributions to the hyperfine splitting in charmonium

UKQCD Collaboration, C. McNeile, C. Michael

We explore the splitting between flavour singlet and non-singlet mesons in charmonium. This has implications for the hyperfine splitting in charmonium.

hep-lat1999

Semi-leptonic decays of heavy mesons

UKQCD Collaboration, Chris Maynard

We present results of a lattice computation of the matrix elements of the vector currents which are relevant for the semileptonic decays of D to K, D to pi and B to pi. The computa…

hep-lat2000

Hadron masses from dynamical, non-perturbatively O(a) improved Wilson fermions

H. Stüben, QCDSF Collaboration, UKQCD Collaboration

We present results on light hadron masses from simulations of full QCD and report on experiences in running such simulations on a Hitachi SR8000-F1 supercomputer.

hep-lat1995

Form Factors for B -> pi l nu-bar_l and B -> K* gamma Decays on the Lattice

UKQCD Collaboration, D. R. Burford, H. D. Duong +5

We present a unified method for analysing form factors in B -> pi l nu-bar_l and B -> K* gamma decays. The analysis provides consistency checks on the q^2 and 1/M extrapolations ne…

hep-lat2007

Energies and radial distributions of B_s mesons - the effect of hypercubic blocking

UKQCD Collaboration, J. Koponen

This is a follow-up to our earlier work for the energies and the charge (vector) and matter (scalar) distributions for S-wave states in a heavy-light meson, where the heavy quark i…

hep-lat2001

Instabilities in Molecular Dynamics Integrators used in Hybrid Monte Carlo Simulations

B. Joo, UKQCD Collaboration

We discuss an instability in the leapfrog integration algorithm, widely used in current Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) simulations of lattice QCD. We demonstrate the instability in the s…

hep-lat2000

The topological susceptibility and pion decay constant from lattice QCD

UKQCD Collaboration, A. Hart, M. Teper

We study the topological susceptibility, chi, in two flavour lattice QCD. We find clear evidence for the expected suppression of chi at small quark mass. The estimate of the pion d…

hep-lat1998

Parallel Tempering in Lattice QCD with O(a)-Improved Wilson Fermions

Balint Joo, Alan C Irving, James C. Sexton +4

We present details of our investigation of the Parallel Tempering algorithm. We consider the application of action matching technology to the selection of parameters. We then prese…

hep-lat2001

Heavy light decay constants on the lattice

UKQCD Collaboration, C. M. Maynard

We present results for the leptonic decays of heavy-light mesons in the quenched approximation and a preliminary result for f_Ds with dynamical fermions for Nf=2. We examine the sy…

hep-lat1999

Techniques for using the overlap-Dirac operator to calculate hadron spectroscopy

UKQCD Collaboration, Craig McNeile

We report on our progress in using the overlap-Dirac fermion operator in simulations of lattice QCD. We have investigated the Lanczos based method of Borici, as well as various rat…

hep-lat2005

B_s meson excited states from the lattice

UKQCD Collaboration, A. M. Green, J. Ignatius +4

This is a follow-up to our earlier work [Phys. Rev. D 65, 014512 (2002); Eur. Phys. J. C 28, 79 (2003); Phys. Rev. D 69, 094505 (2004)] for the energies and the charge (vector) and…

hep-lat1998

Towards a lattice determination of the coupling

G. M. de Divitiis, L. Del Debbio, M. Di Pierro +4

The coupling is related to the form factor at zero momentum of the axial current between - and -states. This form factor is evaluated on the lattice us…

hep-lat1999

Determination of Vub from B->pi l nu on the lattice

UKQCD Collaboration, C. M. Maynard

We present results of a lattice study of the form factors in the decay B-> pi l nu. We attempt to disentangle the the dependence of the form factors on the light quark masses and t…

hep-lat1995

Results from Lattice QCD for baryons containing a heavy quark

UKQCD Collaboration, presented by Peer Ueberholz

We present the calculation of the spectrum of baryons containing one heavy quark. Heavy baryon and meson mass splittings are computed and compared with experiment. We give prelimin…

hep-lat2000

Effects of non-perturbatively improved dynamical fermions in UKQCD simulations

Alan C. Irving, UKQCD Collaboration

We present results for QCD with 2 degenerate flavours of quark using a non-perturbatively improved action on a lattice volume of where the bare gauge coupling and ba…

hep-lat1998

Calculation of f_B and the ``Isgur-Wise Function'' using a non-perturbatively improved fermion action

UKQCD Collaboration, David Richards

We present a calculation of f_B and of the form factors for the semi-leptonic decay B -> D l nu in the quenched approximation to QCD. Results are generated on lattices at beta = 6.…

hep-lat1994

Point-to-point Hadron Correlation Functions using the Sheikholeslami--Wohlert Action

UKQCD Collaboration, S. J. Hands, P. W. Stephenson +1

We calculate correlations between hadronic current operators as a function of their spatial separation, in a quenched lattice QCD simulation at on a lattice…

hep-lat2000

Improved B -> pi l nu_l form factors from the lattice

UKQCD Collaboration, K. C. Bowler, L. Del Debbio +6

We present the results of a lattice computation of the form factors for B^0 ->pi^- l^+nu_l decays near zero-recoil. These results will allow a determination of the CKM matrix eleme…