The 34th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2016)

Jul 24 – 30, 2016
Highfield Campus, University of Southampton
Europe/London timezone

The Nucleon Axial Form Factor from HISQ

Jul 28, 2016, 6:10 PM
20m
Building B2a Room 2077 (Highfield Campus, University of Southampton)

Speaker

Aaron Meyer (University of Chicago/Fermilab)

Description

The nucleon axial form factor is a dominant contribution to errors in neutrino oscillation studies. Lattice calculations have the potential to make an impact on controlling theory errors by disentangling the effects of nuclear corrections and nucleon form factors. In this talk, I will present preliminary results on a blinded calculation of $g_A$ and the axial form factor using HISQ staggered baryons with 2+1+1 flavors of sea quarks. Calculations are done using physical light quark masses and are absolutely renormalized. Results are fit using the model-independent z-expansion parameterization and systematic errors are quantified.

Primary authors

Aaron Meyer (University of Chicago/Fermilab) Dr Andreas Kronfeld (Fermilab) Dr Richard Hill (University of Chicago)

Co-authors

Alexei Strelchenko (Fermilab) Dr James Simone (Fermilab) Ms Ruizi Li (Indiana University)

 Slides