Lattice study on $\pi K$ scattering with moving wall source

Abstract

The s-wave pion-kaon ($\pi K$) scattering lengths at zero momentum are calculated in lattice QCD with sufficiently light $u/d$ quarks and strange quark at its physical value by the finite size formula. The light quark masses correspond to $m_{\pi }=0.330-0.466$ GeV. In the "Asqtad" improved staggered fermion formulation, we measure the $\pi K$ four-point correlators for both isospin $I=1/2$ and 3/2 channels, and analyze the lattice simulation data at the next-to-leading order in the continuum three-flavor chiral perturbation theory, which enables us a simultaneous extrapolation of $\pi K$ scattering lengths at physical point. We adopt a technique with the moving wall sources without gauge fixing to obtain the substantiable accuracy, moreover, for $I=1/2$ channel, we employ the variational method to isolate the contamination from the excited states. Extrapolating to the physical point yields the scattering lengths as $m_{\pi }{a}_{3/2}=-0.0505(19)$ and $m_{\pi }{a}_{1/2}=0.1827(37)$ for $I=3/2$ and 1/2 channels, respectively. Our simulation results for $\pi K$ scattering lengths are in agreement with the experimental reports and theoretical predictions, and can be comparable with other lattice simulations. These simulations are carried out with MILC $N_f=2+1$ flavor gauge configurations at lattice spacing $a\approx 0.15$ fm.

Use variational method to analyze I=1/2 channel for isolating the contamination

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