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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 proposes a method to directly compute hadronic form factors at complex momenta from lattice QCD position-space correlators using a bilateral Laplace transform, thereby extending the accessible kinematic domain to improve precision in observables like the charge radius without requiring analytic continuation or solving inverse problems.
This paper proposes a "beyond Landau" syncretic model where the topological charge becomes fractional below the chiral phase transition, leading to fractional powers of the anomalous determinant in the effective Lagrangian and predicting a generically second-order chiral phase transition that can be tested via lattice QCD measurements of meson propagators and quark condensates.
This paper presents a model using fractional anomalous determinants to describe trace and axial anomalies in gauge theory at nonzero , successfully reproducing lattice results for vacuum energy and glueball masses while explaining the observed three-pseudoscalar decay channels of the candidate.
This paper investigates the gravitational -form factors of the nucleon and pion within an extended linear sigma model incorporating two- and four-quark mixing, finding that while this mixing suppresses the nucleon -form factor to match lattice-QCD results (mimicking effects of chiral invariant mass), it uniquely modifies the pion's momentum-transfer dependence, thereby suggesting that a combined analysis of both form factors is necessary to distinguish between these distinct physical mechanisms.
This paper proposes a method to compute thermal axion production rates in the early Universe using Euclidean lattice QCD without analytic continuation, demonstrating its feasibility in pure-glue QCD to enable reliable extractions in full QCD near the crossover temperature.
This paper develops a gauge-invariant effective field theory for scalar glueballs based on the Yang-Mills gluon condensate, deriving a parameter-free interaction radius and form factor for the resonance that show excellent agreement with first-principles lattice Yang-Mills calculations.
This paper presents a comprehensive technique for computing Drell-Yan lepton pair production across a wide transverse momentum range with unprecedented theoretical precision, incorporating non-perturbative lattice QCD inputs and utilizing a maximum entropy approach to generate strictly positive event weights.
This paper proposes an improved real-time quantum simulation method that reconstructs finite-temperature, finite-density, and finite-theta physics through classical post-processing of a single real-time dataset, overcoming previous convergence limitations and eliminating the need for direct thermal-state preparation.
This paper demonstrates the observation of disorder-free localization in a (2+1)D translationally-invariant lattice gauge theory on a quantum processor and proposes a novel algorithm that achieves a polynomial speedup in sampling disorder configurations by utilizing superposition states over gauge sectors.
Using lattice QCD calculations in a charm-annihilation-forbidden approximation with varying light-quark masses, this study finds that near-threshold interactions are weak and provides no evidence for bound states or resonances in the energy region between the state and the threshold.