Lattice QCD - A guide for people who want results
| dc.creator | Davies, Christine | |
| dc.date | 2005-09-15 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:39:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:39:19Z | |
| dc.description | Lattice QCD was invented thirty years ago but only in the last few years has it finally fulfilled its promise as a precision tool for calculations in hadron physics. This review will cover the fundamentals of discretising QCD onto a space-time lattice and how to reduce the errors associated with the discretisation. This 'improvement' is the key that has made the enormous computational task of a lattice QCD calculation tractable and enabled us to reach the recent milestone of precision calculations of simple 'gold-plated' hadron masses. Accurate decay matrix elements, such as those for leptonic and semileptonic decays of heavy mesons needed by the B factory experimental programme, are now within sight. I will describe what goes into such calculations and what the future prospects and limitations are. | |
| dc.description | Lectures at 58th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, Hadron physics, August 2004 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0509046 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0509046 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/38876 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Lattice | |
| dc.title | Lattice QCD - A guide for people who want results | |
| dc.type | text |