Massive photons: An infrared regularization scheme for lattice
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Forschungszentrum Julich, Julich (Germany)
- The City College of New York, New York, NY (United States); The City Univ. of New York, New York, NY (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (United States); Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
The commonly adopted approach for including electromagnetic interactions in lattice QCD simulations relies on using finite volume as the infrared regularization for QED. The long-range nature of the electromagnetic interaction, however, implies that physical quantities are susceptible to power-law finite volume corrections, which must be removed by performing costly simulations at multiple lattice volumes, followed by an extrapolation to the infinite volume limit. In this work, we introduce a photon mass as an alternative means for gaining control over infrared effects associated with electromagnetic interactions. We present findings for hadron mass shifts due to electromagnetic interactions (i.e., for the proton, neutron, charged and neutral kaon) and corresponding mass splittings, and compare the results with those obtained from conventional QCD+QED calculations. Results are reported for numerical studies of three flavor electroquenched QCD using ensembles corresponding to 800 MeV pions, ensuring that the only appreciable volume corrections arise from QED effects. The calculations are performed with three lattice volumes with spatial extents ranging from 3.4 - 6.7 fm. As a result, we find that for equal computing time (not including the generation of the lattice configurations), the electromagnetic mass shifts can be extracted from computations on a single (our smallest) lattice volume with comparable or better precision than the conventional approach.
- Research Organization:
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); USDOE
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0010495; AC05-06OR23177; SC0012180; PHY15-15738; AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 1313754
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1288988; OSTI ID: 1379556
- Report Number(s):
- JLAB-THY-15-2112; DOE/OR/23177-3477; arXiv:1507.08916; PRLTAO
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 117, Issue 7; ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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