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Perturbative versus non-perturbative decoupling of heavy quarks

  • 1. Wuppertal Univ. (Germany). Dept. of Physics
  • 2. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY (United States)
  • 3. CaSToRC, Cyl Athalassa Campus, Nicosia (Cyprus)
  • 4. Humboldt Univ. Berlin (Germany). Inst. fuer Physik
  • 5. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Zeuthen (Germany). John von Neumann-Inst. fuer Computing NIC

Description

We simulate a theory with Nf=2 heavy quarks of mass M. At energies much smaller than M the heavy quarks decouple and the theory can be described by an effective theory which is a pure gauge theory to leading order in 1/M. We present results for the mass dependence of ratios such as t0(M)/t0(0). We compute these ratios from simulations and compare them to the perturbative prediction. The latter relies on a factorisation formula for the ratios which is valid to leading order in 1/M.

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
7 p.
ISSN
0418-9833
Report number
DESY--15-219

Conference

Title
33. International symposium on lattice field theory
Dates
14-18 Jul 2015
Place
Kobe (Japan)

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Collaborations
ALPHA Collaboration
Secondary number(s)
WUB--15-07; HU-EP--15/55