Jul 26 – 30, 2021
US/Eastern timezone

Nucleon form factors from $N_f$=2+1+1 twisted mass QCD at the physical point

Jul 27, 2021, 7:30 AM
15m
Oral presentation Hadron Structure Hadron Structure

Speaker

Giannis Koutsou (The Cyprus Institute)

Description

We present the nucleon axial and electromagnetic form factors using $N_\textrm{f}=2+1+1$ twisted mass lattice QCD with clover improvement and with quarks with masses tuned to their physical values. Excited state effects are studied using several sink-source separations in the range 0.8 fm - 1.6 fm, exponentially increasing statistics with the separation such that statistical errors remain approximately constant. In addition, quark disconnected diagrams are included in order to extract the isovector and isoscalar axial form factors and the isospin symmetric proton and neutron electromagnetic form factors, as well as their strange-quark contributions. The radii and moments are extracted by modelling the $Q^2$ dependence, including using the so-called $z$-expansion method. A preliminary assessment of lattice cut-off effects is presented using two lattice spacings directly at the physical point.

Primary authors

Constantia Alexandrou Dr Simone Bacchio (The Cyprus Institute) Martha Constantinou (Temple University) Jacob Finkenrath (The Cyprus Institute) Kyriakos Hadjiyiannakou (The Cyprus Institute) Karl Jansen (DESY) Giannis Koutsou (The Cyprus Institute)

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