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Publications and source records attributed to Ph. Boucaud.
We study the relation between the Roma and Zaragoza proposals for chiral fermions on the lattice. The fermion action in the Roma approach is shown to be equivalent to one of the Zaragoza type. This result is used to perform a mean-field study of the phase diagram for chiral Yukawa models based on the Roma action. The phase diagram is compared with the one based on the Zaragoza model with the most local choice for the fermion interactions.
We report on a simulation in progress of an SU(2) X U(1) fermion-Higgs model with two *non-degenerate* fermion doublets. The Zaragoza proposal for chiral lattice fermions is used; naive fermions are studied for comparison. The aims of this simulation are a non-perturbative study of the decoupling of species doublers, of triviality bounds on the Higgs and fermion masses and of the phenomenological quantity Delta-rho.
We discuss the phase structure of chiral Yukawa models in the mean-field approximation. In particular, we examine under which conditions a ferrimagnetic phase appears, by calculating the slopes of possible second order phase transition lines near a critical point. Our results contrast with some statements which appeared in the literature recently.
We present results for the radiative decay $B\to K^* γ$, obtained by using the Clover action at $β= 6.0$ on APE. The compatibility between the scaling laws predicted by the Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) and pole dominance is discussed. The final result depends crucially on the assumed $q^2$-dependence of the form factors.
The Roma and Zaragoza actions for chiral fermions on the lattice are shown to be essentially equivalent. The auxiliary fermion fields in the Roma model can be integrated out, and the resulting action is a special case of the Zaragoza approach. We use this result to perform a mean-field study of the phase diagram of chiral Yukawa models in the Roma formulation.
We present the phase structure of the chiral SU(2)xSU(2) scalar-fermion model on the lattice using the Zaragoza proposal for chiral fermions. The numerical result agrees with an analytic study based on the use of weak and strong Yukawa coupling expansions combined with the mean field approach. The phase diagram consits of four phases: paramagnetic(PM), ferromagnetic(FM), antiferromagnetic(AFM) and ferrimagnetic (FI). The transition lines separating these four phases intersect at one quadruple point.
We present a calculation of the phase diagram of a $SU(2) \times SU(2)$ chiral Yukawa model with massless decoupled doublers, using a saddle point approach, both for small and large Yukawa coupling. Some preliminary MonteCarlo results are also shown.
We present the results of a numerical calculation of semi-leptonic form factors relevant for heavy flavour meson decays into light mesons, at $β=6.4$ on a $24^3 \times 60$ lattice, using the Wilson action in the quenched approximation. We obtain $f^+_K(0)=0.65\pm 0.18$, $V(0)=0.95\pm 0.34$, $A_1(0)=0.63\pm 0.14 $ and $A_2(0)=0.45\pm 0.33 $. We also obtain $A_1(q^2_{max})=0.62\pm 0.09$, $V(0)/A_1(0)=1.5\pm 0.28 $ and $A_2(0)/A_1(0)=0.7\pm 0.4$. The results for $f^+_K(0)$, $V(0)$ and $A_1(0)$ are consistent with the experimental data and with previous lattice determinations with larger lattice spacings. In the case of $A_2(0)$ the errors are too large to draw any firm conclusion. We have also extrapolated the form factors to the B meson, showing a behaviour compatible with the predictions by the heavy quark effective theory (HQET). Within large uncertainties, our results suggest that $A_2/A_1$ increases with the heavy quark mass. We also get very rough estimates for the partial decay widths $B \rightarrow πl ν_l)=\vert V_{ub} \vert^2 (12 \pm 8) 10^{12} s^{-1}$ and $Γ(B \rightarrow ρl ν_l)=\vert V_{ub} \vert^2 (13 \pm12) 10^{12} s^{-1}$, which can be used to give upper bounds on the rates
The $B$-meson decay constant can be measured on the lattice using a $1/m_b$ expansion. To relate the physical quantity to Monte Carlo data one has to know the renormalization coefficient, $Z$, between the lattice operators and their continuum counterparts. We come back to this computation to resolve discrepancies found in previous calculations. We define and discuss in detail the renormalization procedure that allows the (perturbative) computation of $Z$. Comparing the one-loop calculations in the effective Lagrangian approach with the direct two-loop calculation of the two-point $B$-meson correlator in the limit of large $b$-quark mass, we prove that the two schemes give consistent results to order $α_s$. We show that there is, however, a renormalization prescription ambiguity that can have sizeable numerical consequences. This ambiguity can be resolved in the framework of an $O(a)$ improved calculation, and we describe the correct prescription in that case. Finally we give the numerical values of $Z$ that correspond to the different types of lattice approximations discussed in the paper.
We present a new method for regularizing chiral theories on the lattice. The arbitrariness in the regularization is used in order to decouple massless replica fermions. A continuum limit with only one fermion is obtained in perturbation theory and a Golterman-Petcher like symmetry related to the decoupling of the replicas in the non-perturbative regime is identified. In the case of Chiral Gauge Theories gauge invariance is broken at the level of the regularization, so our approach shares many of the characteristics of the Rome approach.