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hep-lat2017★ 13 cited

Massive Schwinger model at finite

Vicente Azcoiti, Giuseppe Di Carlo, Eduardo Follana +2

Using the approach developed in [V. Azcoiti, G. Di Carlo, A. Galante, V. Laliena, \textit{Phys. Lett.} \textbf{B563}, (2003) 117], we are able to reconstruct the behavior of the ma…

hep-lat2016★ 6 cited

Antiferromagnetic Ising model in an imaginary magnetic field

Vicente Azcoiti, Giuseppe Di Carlo, Eduardo Follana +1

We study the two-dimensional antiferromagnetic Ising model with a purely imaginary magnetic field, which can be thought of as a toy model for the usual physics. Our motivation…

hep-lat2014★ 7 cited

Topological Index Theorem on the Lattice through the Spectral Flow of Staggered Fermions

V. Azcoiti, G. Di Carlo, E. Follana +1

We investigate numerically the spectral flow introduced by Adams for the staggered Dirac operator on realistic (quenched) gauge configurations. We obtain clear numerical evidence t…

hep-lat2013

and Antiferromagnetic Ising Model with topological term at

Vicente Azcoiti, Gennaro Cortese, Eduardo Follana +1

We study the two and three-dimensional Antiferromagnetic Ising Model with an imaginary magnetic field at . We use a new geometric algorithm which does not present a sign…

hep-lat2013★ 3 cited

Bottomonium and B results from full lattice QCD

C. T. H. Davies, B. Colquhoun, B. Galloway +7

We have developed two methods for handling quarks in lattice QCD. One uses NRQCD (now improved to include radiative corrections) and the other uses Highly Improved Staggered Qu…

hep-lat2013★ 1 cited

A Geometric Monte Carlo Algorithm for the Antiferromagnetic Ising model with "Topological" Term at

V. Azcoiti, G. Cortese, E. Follana +1

In this work we study the two and three-dimensional antiferromagnetic Ising model with an imaginary magnetic field at . In order to perform numerical simulations of the s…

hep-lat2013★ 3 cited

Phase structure of a generalized Nambu Jona-Lasinio model with Wilson fermions in the mean field or large -expansion

V. Azcoiti, G. Di Carlo, E. Follana +2

We analyze the vacuum structure of a generalized lattice Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model with two flavors of Wilson fermions, such that its continuum action is the most general four-ferm…

hep-lat2013★ 14 cited

The shape of the D -> K semileptonic form factor from full lattice QCD and V_cs

J. Koponen, C. T. H. Davies, G. C. Donald +4

We present a new study of the form factors for D -> K semileptonic decay from lattice QCD that allows us to compare the shape of the vector form factor to experiment and, for the f…

hep-lat2013

Precision tests of the J/psi from full lattice QCD: mass, leptonic width and radiative decay rate to eta_c

C. T. H. Davies, G. C. Donald, R. J. Dowdall +5

We show results from calculations in full lattice QCD of the mass, leptonic width and radiative decay rate to eta_c of the J/psi meson. These provide few % tests of QCD. Another (1…

hep-lat2012

Geometric representation of the 2D Antiferromagnetic Ising Model with topological term at θ=π

V. Azcoiti, G. Cortese, E. Follana +1

We study the two-dimensional Antiferromagnetic Ising Model with an imaginary magnetic field iθat θ=π. We use a new geometric algorithm which does not present a sign problem. This a…

hep-lat2012

Precise Determinations of the Decay Constants of B and D mesons

Heechang Na, Chris Monahan, Christine Davies +4

Recently we studied the B, Bs, D and Ds meson decay constants using various treatments for the heavy quark. For B mesons, we determined fB, fBs, and fBs/fB with NRQCD bottom quarks…

hep-lat2012★ 163 cited

Precision tests of the J/ψ from full lattice QCD: mass, leptonic width and radiative decay rate to η_c

G. C. Donald, C. T. H. Davies, R. J. Dowdall +5

We calculate the J/ψ mass, leptonic width and radiative decay rate to γη_c from lattice QCD including u, d and s quarks in the sea for the first time. We use the Highly Improved St…

hep-lat2012★ 5 cited

Elucidating the Vacuum Structure of the Aoki Phase

Vicente Azcoiti, Giuseppe Di Carlo, Eduardo Follana +1

In this paper, we discuss the vacuum structure of QCD with two flavors of Wilson fermions, inside the Aoki phase. We provide numerical evidence, coming from HMC simulations in $4^4…

hep-lat2012★ 163 cited

Heavy meson masses and decay constants from relativistic heavy quarks in full lattice QCD

C. McNeile, C. T. H. Davies, E. Follana +2

We determine masses and decay constants of heavy-heavy and heavy-charm pseudoscalar mesons as a function of heavy quark mass using a fully relativistic formalism known as Highly Im…

hep-lat2012★ 18 cited

Critical behaviour of the O(3) nonlinear sigma model with topological term at theta=pi from numerical simulations

Vicente Azcoiti, Giuseppe Di Carlo, Eduardo Follana +1

We investigate the critical behaviour at theta=pi of the two-dimensional O(3) nonlinear sigma model with topological term on the lattice. Our method is based on numerical simulatio…

hep-lat2012★ 55 cited

|V_cd| from D Meson Leptonic Decays

Heechang Na, Christine T. H. Davies, Eduardo Follana +2

We present an update of the D meson decay constant f_D using the Highly Improved Staggered Quark (HISQ) action for valence charm and light quarks on MILC N_f = 2+1 lattices. The ne…

hep-lat2011★ 3 cited

Spectral Flow and Index Theorem for Staggered Fermions

E. Follana, V. Azcoiti, G. Di Carlo +1

We investigate numerically the spectral flow introduced by Adams for the staggered Dirac operator on realistic gauge configurations. We study both the unimproved and the HISQ Dirac…

hep-lat2011★ 4 cited

The D to K and D to pi semileptonic decay form factors from Lattice QCD

The HPQCD Collaboration, Jonna Koponen, Christine T. H. Davies +5

We present a new and very high statistics study of D and D_s semileptonic decay form factors on the lattice. We work with MILC N_f=2+1 lattices and use the Highly Improved Staggere…

hep-lat2011★ 151 cited

The Upsilon spectrum and the determination of the lattice spacing from lattice QCD including charm quarks in the sea

R. J. Dowdall, B. Colquhoun, J. O. Daldrop +8

We give results for the Upsilon spectrum from lattice QCD using an improved version of the NRQCD action for b quarks which includes radiative corrections to kinetic terms at O(v^4)…

hep-lat2011★ 98 cited

High-Precision and HQET from Relativistic Lattice QCD

C. McNeile, C. T. H. Davies, E. Follana +2

We present a new determination of the leptonic decay constant from lattice QCD simulations that use gluon configurations from MILC and a highly improved discretization of the…

hep-lat2011★ 78 cited

Semileptonic Decays, and 2 Row Unitarity from Lattice QCD

Heechang Na, Christine T. H. Davies, Eduardo Follana +3

We present a new calculation of the semileptonic form factor at based on HISQ charm and light valence quarks on MILC $…

hep-lat2011★ 37 cited

Staggered fermions, zero modes, and flavor-singlet mesons

Gordon C. Donald, Christine T. H. Davies, Eduardo Follana +1

We examine the taste structure of eigenvectors of the staggered-fermion Dirac operator. We derive a set of conditions on the eigenvectors of modes with small eigenvalues (near-zero…

hep-lat2011★ 15 cited

Progress in numerical simulations of systems with a vacuum like term: The two and three-dimensional Ising model within an imaginary magnetic field

Vicente Azcoiti, Eduardo Follana, Alejandro Vaquero

Using the approach developed in \cite{REFVIC2}, we succeeded in reconstructing the behaviour of the antiferromagnetic Ising model with imaginary magnetic field for two and thr…

hep-lat2011

to semileptonic decay form factors from HISQ light and charm quarks

H. Na, C. T. H. Davies, E. Follana +2

We present a study of semileptonic decays on the lattice which employs the HISQ action for both the charm and the light quarks. We work with MILC unquenched…