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Title: Nucleon electromagnetic form factors from lattice QCD using a nearly physical pion mass

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
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  1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Univ. of Mainz, Mainz (Germany)
  2. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  4. New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM (United States)
  5. Univ. of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)

We propose lattice QCD calculations of nucleon electromagnetic form factors using pion masses mπ = 149, 202, and 254 MeV and an action with clover-improved Wilson quarks coupled to smeared gauge fields, as used by the Budapest-Marseille-Wuppertal Collaboration. Particular attention is paid to the removal of the effects of excited-state contamination by calculations at three source-sink separations and the use of the summation and generalized pencil-of-function methods. The combination of a calculation at the nearly physical mass mπ = 149 MeV in a large spatial volume (mπLs = 4.2) and the removal of excited-state effects yields agreement with experiment for the electric and magnetic form factors GE(Q2) and GM(Q2) up to Q2 = 0.5 GeV2.

Research Organization:
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM (United States); University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-94ER40818; AC02-06CH11357; FG02-96ER40965
OSTI ID:
1505598
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1181557
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 90, Issue 7; ISSN 1550-7998
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 63 works
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