{"title":"Constructing a composite Higgs model with built-in large separation of scales","authors":"O. Witzel, A. Hasenfratz","doi":"10.22323/1.363.0115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22323/1.363.0115","url":null,"abstract":"Experimentally the existence of a light 125 GeV Higgs boson is well established but so far no other heavier resonances have been observed. Viable models to describe the Higgs boson as composite particle require hence to exhibit a large separation of scales. This occurs naturally in systems located near a conformal fixed point irrespective whether the system lies outside or inside the conformal window. We demonstrate the latter case by investigating a mass-split model with four light and six heavy flavors. By construction mass-split models exhibit a large separation of scales and feature in addition a highly constrained hadron spectrum. We present results based on the low-lying connected meson spectrum. Although the light sector is chirally broken, we show that it exhibits hyperscaling which is typical for conformal systems.","PeriodicalId":8440,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: High Energy Physics - Lattice","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73908559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Anosova, C. Gattringer, D. Goschl, T. Sulejmanpasic, P. Torek
{"title":"Topological terms in abelian lattice field theories","authors":"M. Anosova, C. Gattringer, D. Goschl, T. Sulejmanpasic, P. Torek","doi":"10.22323/1.363.0082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22323/1.363.0082","url":null,"abstract":"In this contribution we revisit the lattice discretization of the topological charge for abelian lattice field theories. The construction departs from an initially non-compact discretization of the gauge fields and after absorbing $2pi$ shifts of the gauge fields leads to a generalized Villain action that also includes the topological term. The topological charge in two, as well as in four dimensions can be expressed in terms of only the integer-valued Villain variables. We test various properties of the topological charge and in particular analyze the index theorem in two dimensions and discuss the Witten effect in 4-d. As an application of our formulation we present results from a simulation of the 2-d U(1) gauge Higgs model at vacuum angle $theta = pi$, where we use a suitable worldline/worldsheet representation to overcome the complex action problem at non-zero $theta$.","PeriodicalId":8440,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: High Energy Physics - Lattice","volume":"328 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76981576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Sarkar, O. Kaczmarek, F. Karsch, Anirban Lahiri, C. Schmidt
{"title":"Conserved charge fluctuations with smaller-than-physical quark masses","authors":"M. Sarkar, O. Kaczmarek, F. Karsch, Anirban Lahiri, C. Schmidt","doi":"10.22323/1.363.0087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22323/1.363.0087","url":null,"abstract":"We present results from calculations of conserved charge fluctuations in $(2+1)$-flavor QCD using light quark masses in the range $m_s/80 leq m_l leq m_s/27$, with the strange quark mass ($m_s$) kept fixed at its physical value. This corresponds to a Goldstone pion mass in the range $80$ MeV $leq m_pi leq 140$ MeV. The measurements have been done using HISQ fermion discretization and Symanzik improved gauge action. We discuss the quark mass dependence of up to 6th order cumulants and present first results on the separation of singular and regular contributions to these cumulants. From these results, we examine the nature of the chiral phase transition and the variation of the curvature of the crossover line as we approach the chiral limit.","PeriodicalId":8440,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: High Energy Physics - Lattice","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85045649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Aarts, C. Allton, J. Glesaaen, S. Hands, B. Jager, Seyong Kim, M. Lombardo, A. Nikolaev, S. Ryan, J. Skullerud, Liangkai Wu
{"title":"Spectral quantities in thermal QCD: a progress report from the FASTSUM collaboration","authors":"G. Aarts, C. Allton, J. Glesaaen, S. Hands, B. Jager, Seyong Kim, M. Lombardo, A. Nikolaev, S. Ryan, J. Skullerud, Liangkai Wu","doi":"10.22323/1.363.0075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22323/1.363.0075","url":null,"abstract":"In order to study spectral quantities in thermal QCD, the FASTSUM collaboration employs anisotropic lattice simulations with N_f=2+1 flavours of Wilson fermions. Here we discuss our Generation 2 and Generation 2L ensembles, which differ in the pion mass. The focus is on observables related to the light quarks and chiral symmetry restoration.","PeriodicalId":8440,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: High Energy Physics - Lattice","volume":"218 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83629484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Boyle, F. Erben, M. Marshall, F. '. h'Og'ain, A. Portelli, J. Tsang
{"title":"An exploratory study of heavy-light semileptonic form factors using distillation","authors":"P. Boyle, F. Erben, M. Marshall, F. '. h'Og'ain, A. Portelli, J. Tsang","doi":"10.22323/1.363.0169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22323/1.363.0169","url":null,"abstract":"We present our exploratory study with the aim of simulating heavy-light semileptonic form factors as part of the RBC-UKQCD charm (to bottom) physics programme. We are using a distillation-based setup as a strategy to get optimised plateaus in semileptonic $D_{(s)}$ and $B_{(s)}$ decays, and compare our results to form factors obtained from sequential $Z_2$-Wall propagators. The study is done in a centre-of-mass frame as well as in several moving frames. We use an $N_f=2+1$ domain wall fermion ensemble with a pion mass of $340$ MeV, with the aim of extending the study to a variety of other domain-wall ensembles, including physical-pion mass ensembles.","PeriodicalId":8440,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: High Energy Physics - Lattice","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76629907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effective thermal potential between static $ Q $ and $bar Q$ in SU(3) gauge theory","authors":"D. Bala, S. Datta","doi":"10.22323/1.363.0164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22323/1.363.0164","url":null,"abstract":"A non-perturbative calculation of the effective thermal potential between heavy $Q$ and $bar Q$ from lattice QCD is difficult, and usually involves a Bayesian analysis. Here we present a simple method to obtain the potential from smeared Wilson loop, using the structure of the thermal Wilson loop. We present results for the $Q bar Q$ thermal potential in a gluonic plasma for temperatures $lesssim 2 T_c$. We also present preliminary results for the effective potential when the $Q$ and $bar Q$ are in octet color configuration.","PeriodicalId":8440,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: High Energy Physics - Lattice","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76057474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Davies, C. DeTar, A. El-Khadra, E. G'amiz, S. Gottlieb, D. Hatton, A. Kronfeld, J. Laiho, G. Lepage, Yuzhi Liu, P. Mackenzie, C. McNeile, E. Neil, T. Primer, J. Simone, D. Toussaint, R. V. D. Water, A. Vaquero, Shuhei Yamamoto for the Hpqcd, Fermilab Lattice, Milc Collaborations, U. Glasgow, U. Utah, U. Illinois, Cafpe, U. Granada, U. Indiana, Fermilab, U. Syracuse, U. Cornell, U. Plymouth, U. Colorado, U. Arizona
{"title":"The hadronic vacuum polarization of the muon fromfour-flavor lattice QCD","authors":"C. Davies, C. DeTar, A. El-Khadra, E. G'amiz, S. Gottlieb, D. Hatton, A. Kronfeld, J. Laiho, G. Lepage, Yuzhi Liu, P. Mackenzie, C. McNeile, E. Neil, T. Primer, J. Simone, D. Toussaint, R. V. D. Water, A. Vaquero, Shuhei Yamamoto for the Hpqcd, Fermilab Lattice, Milc Collaborations, U. Glasgow, U. Utah, U. Illinois, Cafpe, U. Granada, U. Indiana, Fermilab, U. Syracuse, U. Cornell, U. Plymouth, U. Colorado, U. Arizona","doi":"10.22323/1.363.0070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22323/1.363.0070","url":null,"abstract":"We present an update on the ongoing calculations by the Fermilab Lattice, HPQCD, and MILC Collaboration of the leading-order (in electromagnetism) hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. Our project employs ensembles with four flavors of highly improved staggered fermions, physical light-quark masses, and four lattice spacings ranging from $a approx 0.06$ to 0.15 fm for most of the results thus far.","PeriodicalId":8440,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: High Energy Physics - Lattice","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76842418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Shibata, K. Kondo, Ryutaro Matsudo, Shogo Nishino
{"title":"Quark confinement in the Yang-Mills theory with a gauge-invariant gluon mass in view of the gauge-invariant BEH mechanism","authors":"A. Shibata, K. Kondo, Ryutaro Matsudo, Shogo Nishino","doi":"10.22323/1.363.0060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22323/1.363.0060","url":null,"abstract":"In order to clarify the mechanism of quark confinement in the Yang-Mills theory with mass gap, we propose to investigate the massive Yang-Mills model, namely, Yang-Mills theory with ``a gauge-invariant gluon mass term'', which is to be deduced from a specific gauge-scalar model with a single radially-fixed scalar field under a suitable constraint called the reduction condition. The gluon mass term simulates the dynamically generated mass to be extracted in the low-energy effective theory of the Yang-Mills theory and plays the role of a new probe to study the phase structure and confinement mechanism. \u0000In this talk, we first explain why such a gauge-scalar model is constructed without breaking the gauge symmetry through the gauge-independent description of the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism which does not rely on the spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetry. Then we discuss how the numerical simulations for the proposed massive Yang-Mills theory can be performed by taking into account the reduction condition in the complementary gauge-scalar model on a lattice. By using the reweighting method, we have investigated the effect of the gluon mass term to the Wilson loop (the static potential) and the dynamically generated mass. Moreover, we point out that the adjoint case would gives an alternative understanding for the physical meaning of the gauge-covariant decomposition for the Yang-Mills field known as the Cho-Duan-Ge-Faddeev-Niemi decomposition, while the fundamental case would give a novel decomposition which has been overlooked so far.","PeriodicalId":8440,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: High Energy Physics - Lattice","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76266325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Akiyama, Y. Kuramashi, Takumi Yamashita, Yusuke Yoshimura
{"title":"Phase transition of four-dimensional Ising model with tensor network scheme","authors":"S. Akiyama, Y. Kuramashi, Takumi Yamashita, Yusuke Yoshimura","doi":"10.22323/1.363.0138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22323/1.363.0138","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the phase transition of the four-dimensional Ising model with two types of tensor network scheme, one is the higher-order tensor renormalization group and the other is the anisotropic tensor renormalization group. The results for the internal energy and magnetization obtained by the former algorithm with the impure tensor method, enlarging the lattice volume up to $1024^4$, are consistent with the weak first-order phase transition. For the later algorithm, our implementation successfully reduces the execution time thanks to the parallel computation and the results provided by ATRG seems comparable to those with HOTRG.","PeriodicalId":8440,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: High Energy Physics - Lattice","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90644065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evading the model sign problem in the PNJL model with repulsive vector-type interaction via path optimization","authors":"A. Ohnishi, Y. Mori, K. Kashiwa","doi":"10.22323/1.363.0213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22323/1.363.0213","url":null,"abstract":"We discuss the sign problem in the Polyakov loop extended Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model with repulsive vector-type interaction by using the path optimization method. In this model, both of the Polyakov loop and the vector-type interaction cause the model sign problem, and several prescriptions have been utilized even in the mean field treatment. In the path optimization method, integration variables are complexified and the integration path (manifold) is optimized to evade the sign problem, or equivalently to enhance the average phase factor. Within the homogeneous field ansatz, the path is optimized by using the feedforward neural network. We find that the assumptions adopted in previous works, $mathrm{Re},A_8 simeq 0$ and $mathrm{Re},omega simeq 0$, can be justified from the Monte-Carlo configurations sampled on the optimized path. We also derive the Euler-Lagrange equation for the optimal path to satisfy. The two optimized paths, the solution of the Euler-Lagrange equation and the variationally optimized path, agree with each other in the region with large statistical weight.","PeriodicalId":8440,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: High Energy Physics - Lattice","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87611179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}