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

Importance of closed quark loops for lattice QCD studies of tetraquarks

25 Jul 2016, 16:45
20m
Building B2a Room 2065 (Highfield Campus, University of Southampton)

Building B2a Room 2065

Highfield Campus, University of Southampton

Talk Hadron Spectroscopy and Interactions Hadron Spectroscopy and Interactions

Speaker

Mr Joshua Berlin (University of Frankfurt)

Description

To investigate the light scalar tetraquark candidate $a_0(980)$ (quantum numbers $J^P=0^+$), a correlation matrix including a variety of two- and four-quark interpolating operators has to be computed. We discuss efficient techniques to compute the elements of this correlation matrix. In particular we present numerical results for diagrams with closed quark loops and present evidence that such diagrams are not negligible, i.e. that their contribution is essential to obtain physically meaningful results.

Primary authors

Dr Abdou Abdel-Rehim (Cyprus Institute) Prof. Constantia Alexandrou (Cyprus Institute) Dr Jacob Finkenrath (The Cyprus Institute) Mr Joshua Berlin (University of Frankfurt) Prof. Marc Wagner (Goethe University Frankfurt) Dr Mario Gravina (Università della Calabria) Dr Mattia Dalla Brida (DESY - Zeuthen) Dr Theodoros Leontiou (Cyprus Institute)

Presentation materials