Strong-Isospin Breaking in the Neutron-Proton Mass Difference

dc.creatorSavage, Martin J.
dc.date2006-08-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:41:14Z
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dc.descriptionWe determine the strong-isospin violating component of the neutron-proton mass difference from fully-dynamical lattice QCD and partially-quenched QCD calculations of the nucleon mass, constrained by partially-quenched chiral perturbation theory at one-loop level. The lattice calculations were performed with domain-wall valence quarks on MILC lattices with rooted staggered sea-quarks at a lattice spacing of b ~ 0.125 fm, lattice spatial size of L~2.5 fm and pion masses ranging from m_pi~290 MeV to ~350 MeV. At the physical value of the pion mass, we predict M_n - M_p |(d-u) = 2.26 +- 0.57 +- 0.42 +- 0.10 MeV where the first error is statistical, the second error is due to the uncertainty in the ratio of light-quark masses, eta=m_u/m_d, determined by MILC, and the third error is an estimate of the systematic due to chiral extrapolation.
dc.description7 pages, 2 figs. Talk given at 24th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory: Lattice 2006, Tucson, Arizona, 23-28 July 2006
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0608023
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0608023
dc.identifierPoSLAT2006:198,2006
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/181564
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Lattice
dc.titleStrong-Isospin Breaking in the Neutron-Proton Mass Difference
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