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Hep-Lat, short for High Energy Physics – Lattice, explores the fundamental forces of nature by simulating particle interactions on a digital grid. Instead of relying solely on abstract equations, researchers in this field use powerful computers to model how quarks and gluons bind together, offering deep insights into the structure of matter that are often impossible to derive analytically.
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This paper introduces a generalized definition of isothermal compressibility in (2+1)-flavor QCD based on conserved charge fluctuations, presenting lattice results that align with hadron resonance gas models and heavy-ion collision data while demonstrating that the compressibility on the pseudo-critical line closely resembles that of an ideal gas.
This study demonstrates that applying the Medium Separation Scheme (MSS) alongside Magnetic Field Independent Regularization (MFIR) to the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model of magnetized two-flavor color superconducting quark matter eliminates unphysical oscillations and ensures positive magnetization, thereby correcting artifacts found in traditional approaches that fail to properly separate medium effects from vacuum contributions.
This paper presents lattice QCD calculations of light-nuclei masses across various quark masses to establish first-principles constraints on nuclear interactions and reveals that, while quark-mass contributions to binding energy are small and additive, the dominant contribution arises from the gluonic component via the QCD trace anomaly.
This paper addresses the challenges of extracting scattering amplitudes from staggered lattice QCD by proposing two complementary approaches: calculating one-loop amplitudes using Rooted Staggered Chiral Perturbation Theory to verify quantization conditions, and generalizing the Lüscher formalism to explicitly incorporate taste-splitting and fourth-rooting effects.
This paper proposes a first-principles strategy to extend lattice QCD calculations of inclusive hadronic decays to include QED and isospin-breaking effects, presenting preliminary results within the RM123 framework to ultimately improve the determination of the CKM matrix element .
This paper refutes the proposal that orbifold lattices offer an exponential speedup for quantum simulations of Yang--Mills theory by demonstrating through analytical and numerical evidence that compounding hidden costs, including severe Trotter overhead and gauge-violating dynamics, render the approach orders of magnitude more expensive than existing alternatives.
This paper presents the first non-perturbative determination of the model-independent QCD contribution to the axion-photon coupling using continuum extrapolated lattice simulations, yielding a precise value that enables updated constraints on axion models to guide future experimental strategies.
This paper critiques a recent lattice QCD study that claims to exclude a QCD critical endpoint below MeV, arguing that the entropy-contour method used fails to directly probe critical singularities and therefore cannot provide model-independent constraints on the critical point's location.
This paper utilizes Born-Oppenheimer Effective Field Theory and lattice QCD calculations to demonstrate that the near-degeneracy and specific decay patterns of the hidden-bottom tetraquarks and arise from the degeneracy of their underlying light degrees of freedom, identified as and adjoint mesons.
This paper investigates the thermal static potential in (2+1)-flavor QCD at finite density using a Taylor expansion, revealing an enhancement of in-medium screening in both real and imaginary parts that offers new constraints on heavy-quark interactions relevant to the RHIC Beam Energy Scan and future FAIR experiments.