Excited-State Effective Masses in Lattice QCD [electronic resource].
Published
Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2009. Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy
We apply black-box methods, i.e. where the performance of the method does not depend upon initial guesses, to extract excited-state energies from Euclidean-time hadron correlation functions. In particular, we extend the widely used effective-mass method to incorporate multiple correlation functions and produce effective mass estimates for multiple excited states. In general, these excited-state effective masses will be determined by finding the roots of some polynomial. We demonstrate the method using sample lattice data to determine excited-state energies of the nucleon and compare the results to other energy-level finding techniques.
Report Numbers
E 1.99:jlab-thy-09-957 E 1.99: doe/or/23177-0653 doe/or/23177-0653 jlab-thy-09-957
Published through SciTech Connect. 10/01/2009. "jlab-thy-09-957" " doe/or/23177-0653" Physical Review D 80 ISSN 1550-7998; PRVDAQ FT George Fleming, Saul Cohen, Huey-Wen Lin.