Determination of light quark masses from the electromagnetic splitting of pseudoscalar meson masses computed with two flavors of domain wall fermions

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dc.creatorBlum, Thomas
dc.creatorDoi, Takumi
dc.creatorHayakawa, Masashi
dc.creatorIzubuchi, Taku
dc.creatorYamada, Norikazu
dc.date2007-08-03
dc.date2007-08-10
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:41:42Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:41:42Z
dc.descriptionWe determine the light quark masses from lattice QCD simulations incorporating the electromagnetic interaction of valence quarks. The meson masses are calculated on lattice QCD configurations generated by the RBC Collaboration for two flavors of dynamical domain wall fermions, which are combined with QED configurations generated via quenched non-compact lattice QED. The electromagnetic part of the pion mass splitting is found to be $m_{π^+}-m_{π^0}=4.12(21)$ MeV, where only the statistical error is quoted, and similarly for the kaon, 1.443(55) MeV. Our results for the light quark masses are $m_u^{\rm\bar{MS}}$(2 GeV)=$3.02(27)(19)$ MeV, $m_d^{\rm\bar{MS}}$(2 GeV)=$5.49(20)(34)$ MeV, and $m_s^{\rm\bar{MS}}$(2 GeV)=$119.5(56)(74)$ MeV, where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. By averaging over $\pm e$ to cancel ${\cal O}(e)$ noise exactly on each combined gauge field configuration, we are able to work at physical $α=1/137$ and obtain very small statistical errors. In our calculation, several sources of systematic error remain, including finite volume, non-zero lattice spacing, chiral extrapolation, quenched QED, and quenched strange quark, which may be more significant than the errors quoted above.
dc.description38 pages, 7 figures. Fixed typo in eq. 47, added footnote to Table I. Version submitted to Phys. Rev. D
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0484
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0484
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D76:114508,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.76.114508
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/200627
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Lattice
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleDetermination of light quark masses from the electromagnetic splitting of pseudoscalar meson masses computed with two flavors of domain wall fermions
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