9625384
Clear evidence of redundant operators in Monte Carlo studies of the Ising model.
After reviewing the notion of redundant operators and the procedure for deriving them analytically for Ising systems, we present Monte Carlo renormalization-group data that clearly show their occurrence as eigenoperators in d = 2.
15540297
Chiral limit of QCD
This talk contains an analysis of quenched chiral perturbation theory and its consequences. The chiral behavior of a number of quantities such as the pion mass m{sub pi}{sup 2}, the Bernard-Golterman ratios R and {sub X}, the masses of nucleons, and the kaon B-parameter are examined to see if the singular terms induced by the additional Goldstone boson, {eta}{prime}, are visible in present data. The overall conclusion (different from that presented at the lattice meeting) of this analysis is that even though there are some caveats attached to the indications of the extra terms induced by {eta}{prime} loops, the standard expressions break down when extrapolating the quenched data with m{sub q} < m{sub s}/2 to physical light quarks. I then show that due to the single and double poles in the quenched {eta}{prime}, the axial charge of the proton cannot be calculated using the Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly condition. I conclude with a review of the status of the calculation of light quark masses from lattice QCD.
124910471
Monte Carlo Renormalization Group for SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory
We present the results of a Monte Carlo renormalization group calculation using the ..sqrt..3 block transformation introduced by Cordery, Gupta, and Novotny. The ..beta.. function for the SU(2) lattice gauge theory is calculated both along the Wilson axis and along the line K/sub A/ = -0.24K/sub F/ in the fundamental-adjoint plane.
122633786
Monte Carlo Renormalization Group: A Review
The logic and the methods of Monte Carlo Renormalization Group (MCRG) are reviewed. A status report of results for 4-dimensional lattice gauge theories derived using MCRG is presented. Existing methods for calculating the improved action are reviewed and evaluated. The Gupta-Cordery improved MCRG method is described and compared with the standard one.
18442234
Comparison of Inversion Algorithms for Wilson Fermions on the CM5
This talk presents results of a comparitive study of iterative algorithms like minimal residue ($MR$) and conjugate gradient ($CG$, $BiCG\gamma_5$, and \bicgstab) used for inverting the Dirac matrix $M$. The tests were done on the Connection Machine CM-5 using $32^3 \times 64$ lattices. The fermion action used is of Wilson type, both with and without the clover term. The overall conclusion is that preconditioned over-relaxed $MR$ is the simplest, uses the least memory, and is comparable in performance to \bicgstab. We find these two algorithms to be equally robust, $i.e.$ insensitive to the starting solution and to round-off errors.
121903104
Simulating QCD with dynamical Wilson and staggered fermions
Abstract I present a summary of the work done during the last year by the Los Alamos lattice collaboration (C. Baillie, R. Gupta, G. Kilcup, G. Guralnik, A. Patel and S. Sharpe) to study QCD with the Hybrid Monte Carlo Algorithm. The specific questions we have addressed are the finite temperature transition for both staggered and Wilson fermions and screening in the heavy q q potential with Wilson fermions. I also present a discussion of the efficiency of the fermion update algorithm.
32229676
Precision description of the octet-baryon magnetic moments.
Addition of an SU(3) (flavor)-tensor term having isoscalar and isovector parts to the quark-model expressions reduces the chi/sup 2/ per degree of freedom to 1.28 from 80 for the recent precision magnetic-moment data of the octet baryons. The isospin symmetry is well obeyed as the ratio of the magnetic moment of the down quark to that of the up quark is -0.499.
8554087
An episode of ultrahigh energy radiation from the gamma -ray source Geminga: GRAPES I observations at Ooty during 1984-1987.
A study of showers arriving from the direction of the γ-ray source Geminga (1E0630 + 178) has shown evidence for emission of ultrahigh energy radiation during the one week interval October 10-16, 1986. 83 showers were observed in the source bin as against an expected background of 44.1. The probability of observing this excess based on Monte Carlo simulations is less than 10 −4 . The flux observed during this period (1.00±0.24)×10 −11 cm −2 s −1 at energies ≥10 14 eV corresponds to a time-averaged luminosity of 6×10 32 erg s −1
43411058
Semirelativistic potential model for heavy quarkonia.
The c-italicc-bar, b-italicb-bar, and t-italic t-italic-bar spectra are investigated with the use of a semirelativistic potential model described in an earlier paper. Results for the energy levels, leptonic widths, and E-italic1 transition widths are compared with the experimental data for c-italicc-bar and b-italicb-bar and predicted for t-italic t-italic-bar. We also find that the quark-antiquark interaction can best be described by a quasistatic rather than a momentum-dependent potential, and propose a theoretical justification for this surprising conclusion.
31179622
Elastic scattering of alpha particles from 209Bi at 24.8, 28.5, 34.7, 38.8, and 69.5 MeV.
Differential cross sections for the elastic scattering of alpha particles from {sup 209}Bi have been measured over a wide angular range at a number of energies between 24 and 70 MeV. The present data along with existing data in this energy range have been analyzed using the optical model with both phenomenological and double-folded potentials. The application of the dispersion relation of Mahaux, Ng{cflx o}, and Satchler allows a reproduction of the observed energy dependence of the real part of the potential. A nearside-farside decomposition of the data clearly reveals large-angle Fraunhoefer oscillations. The inelastic cross sections at 69.5 MeV have also been measured and the deformation lengths obtained from a distorted-wave Born analysis are consistent with values reported in the literature.
37920331
Systematics in the volume integrals of the imaginary part of the light ion optical potentials.
A systematic analysis of the imaginary part of the light projectile (A/sub p/ = 1--6) phenomenological optical potentials has been carried out. As a result of this analysis a global formula has been found which describes successfully the volume integrals of the imaginary potential in terms of the projectile energy in the range 0--50 MeV/nucleon and the target and the projectile mass numbers.