Department
Data Science
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Physical Review Letters
ISSN
0031-9007
Volume
92
Issue
2
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.022001
First Page
1
Last Page
4
Publication Date
1-15-2004
Abstract
The recently developed Symanzik-improved staggered-quark discretization allows unquenched lattice-QCD simulations with much smaller (and more realistic) quark masses than previously possible. To test this formalism, we compare experiment with a variety of nonperturbative calculations in QCD drawn from a restricted set of “gold-plated” quantities. We find agreement to within statistical and systematic errors of 3% or less. We discuss the implications for phenomenology and, in particular, for heavy-quark physics.
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Recommended Citation
Hetrick, J. E.,
&
Davies, C. T.
(2004).
High-Precision Lattice QCD Confronts Experiment.
Physical Review Letters, 92(2), 1–4.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.022001
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/soecs-facarticles/159
