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Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics. By Leila Joulaeizadeh 19 Oct. 2005. 1- Literature : Lattice QCD , C. Davis Hep-ph/0205181 2- Burcham and Jobes. Outline - Introduction Hamilton principle Local gauge invariance and QED Local gauge invariance and QCD Lattice QCD calculations
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Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics By Leila Joulaeizadeh 19 Oct. 2005 1- Literature : Lattice QCD , C. Davis Hep-ph/0205181 2- Burcham and Jobes
Outline • - Introduction • Hamilton principle • Local gauge invariance and QED • Local gauge invariance and QCD • Lattice QCD calculations • Some results • Conclusion
What is Quantum Chromodynamics and why LQCD? • Strong interaction between coloured quarks by exchange of coloured gluon • Gluons carry colour so they have self interaction • Self interaction of gluons , nonabelian group SU(3) • - QCD is a nonlinear theory so there is no analytical solution and we should use numerical methods
For motion of a point like particle with mass m in a central potential: Physical systems will evolve in such a way to minimize the action Hamilton Principle
Examples Scalar field (spin 0 particle) Spinor field(spin 1/2 particle)
Example Massless vector field(spin 1)
Local Gauge Invariance and QCD Non-Abelian nature of SU(3) Gluon self interaction term
Diagrams representing propagation of free quark and gluon and their interaction
Lattice QCD O : operator whose expectation value we want to calculate
Lattice gauge theory for gluons x X+1 x X+1 x
Relating lattice results to physics Make the correlators of quarks by using matrices r
Steps of typical lattice calculation 1- choose the lattice spacing - close to the continuum - computation costs2- Choose a quark formulation and number of quark flavors3- generating an ensemble of gluon configurations - Try to go near small masses - computation costs4- calculation of quark propagators on each gluon configuration5- combination of quark propagators to form hadron correlators6- Determination of lattice spacing in Gev(lattice calibration) 7- extrapolation of hadron masses as a function of bare quark masses8- repeat the calculation using several lattice spacing to compare with physical results at the limit of a 09- compare with experiment or give a prediction for experiment
Some results of lattice QCD calculations The spectrum of light mesons and baryons in the quenched approximation
c JPC Charmonium spectrum in quenched approximation
Summary • Photons don’t carry any colour charge, so QED is analytically solvable. • Gluons do carry colour charge,so to solve the QCD theory, approximations are proposed • (e.g. Lattice calculation method ). • - There is a fermion doubling problem in lattice which can be solved by various methods. • In order to obtain light quark properties, we need bigger computers and the • calculation costs will be increased. • Quenched approximation is reasonable in order to decrease the computation costs.