Strong isospin violation and chiral logarithms in the baryon spectrum

Abstract

We present a precise lattice QCD calculation of the contribution to the neutron-proton mass splitting arising from strong isospin breaking, $m_n-m_p{|}_{QCD}=2.32\pm 0.17$ MeV. We also determine $m_{{\Xi }^{-}}-m_{{\Xi }^0}{|}_{QCD}=5.44\pm 0.31$ MeV. The calculation is performed at three values of the pion mass, with several values of the quark mass splitting and multiple lattice volumes, but only a single lattice spacing and an estimate of discretization errors. The calculations are performed on the anisotropic clover-Wilson ensembles generated by the Hadron Spectrum Collaboration. The omega-baryon mass is used to set the scale $a_t^{-1}=6111\pm 127$ MeV, while the kaon masses are used to determine the value of the light-quark mass spitting. The nucleon mass splitting is then determined as a function of the pion mass. We observe, for the first time, conclusive evidence for non-analytic light quark mass dependence in lattice QCD calculations of the baryon spectrum. When left as a free parameter, the fits prefer a nucleon axial coupling of $g_A=1.24(56)$. To highlight the presence of this chiral logarithm in the nucleon mass splitting, we also compute the isospin splitting in the cascade-baryon system which is less sensitive to chiral dynamics. Finally, we update the best lattice QCD determination of the CP-odd pion-nucleon coupling that would arise from a non-zero QCD theta-term, ${\bar{g}}_0/(\sqrt{2}{f}_{\pi })=(14.7\pm 1.8\pm 1.4)\cdot 10^{-3}\bar{\theta }$. The original lattice QCD correlation functions, analysis results and extrapolated quantities are packaged in HDF5 files made publicly available including a simple Python script to access the numerical results, construct effective mass plots along with our analysis results, and perform the extrapolations of various quantities determined in this work.

16 pages including figures and tables. The original lattice QCD correlation functions and our analysis results can be found at this address http://ntc0.lbl.gov/~walkloud/mn_mns_mp/ stored in HDF5 format. Additionally, there are a number of Python files which can be used to access the original results and our analysis, see the README.txt to get started

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