Wednesday, September 5, 2012

1209.0722 (Massimo D'Elia et al.)

Susceptibility of the QCD vacuum to CP-odd electromagnetic background
fields
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Massimo D'Elia, Marco Mariti, Francesco Negro
We investigate two flavor QCD in presence of CP-odd electromagnetic background fields and determine, by means of lattice QCD simulations, the induced effective theta term to the first order in the scalar product of E and B. We employ a rooted staggered discretization and study lattice spacings down to 0.1 fm, with pion masses around 400 MeV. In order to deal with a positive measure, we consider purely imaginary electric fields and real magnetic fields, then exploiting analytic continuation. Our results are relevant to a description of the effective pseudoscalar QED-QCD interactions.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.0722

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