Published February 8, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Flavor twisted boundary conditions, pion momentum, and the pion electromagnetic form factor

  • 1. Department of Physics, Duke University, Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708-0305 (United States) and Institute for Theoretical Physics, Bern University, Sidlerstrasse 5, CH-3012 Bern (Switzerland)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Duke University, Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708-0305 (United States)

Description

We investigate the utility of partially twisted boundary conditions in lattice calculations of meson observables. For dynamical simulations, we show that the pion dispersion relation is modified by volume effects. In the isospin limit, we demonstrate that the pion electromagnetic form factor can be computed on the lattice at continuous values of the momentum transfer. Furthermore, the finite volume effects are under theoretical control for extraction of the pion charge radius

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2006.12.041;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-lat/0610103v2;
PII
S0370-2693(06)01571-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
645
Journal Issue
2-3
Journal Page Range
p. 314-321
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.