Dentinger, Simon: Screening meson masses towards the chiral limit. 2021
Inhalt
- Motivation
- Introduction to Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics
- Wick rotation
- Discretization of QCD
- Statistical mechanics
- Calculating the Euclidean correlator
- Different fermion types
- Staggered fermions
- Hadronic correlators for staggered fermions
- Chiral symmetries and susceptibilities for staggered fermions
- Connection between lattice and physical units
- UA(1) symmetry and universality class
- Methodology
- Extracting masses from correlators
- Thermodynamic limit extrapolation
- Continuum limit extrapolation
- Chiral limit extrapolation
- Results
- Lattice setup
- Correlators
- Calculations of screening masses and susceptibilities
- Thermodynamic limit
- Continuum limit
- Chiral limit
- Conclusion