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arXiv2007

2+1 flavour Domain Wall Fermion simulations by the RBC and UKQCD collaborations

We review simulations of dynamical domain wall fermions at a fixed inverse lattice spacing of 1.73GeV and with pion masses as light as 330MeV and spatial dimensions as large as 2.7fm performed by the RBC and UKQCD collaborations. These results include pseudoscalar masses and decay constants and low energy constants of the chiral effective lagrangian. We also review results for the neutral kaon mixing amplitude $B_K$, the Kl3 form factor, pseudoscalar meson structure, and vector meson decay constants. In the baryon sector we review results for the spectrum, and nucleon form factors and structure functions. Highlights of our programme include preliminary quark masses, and determinations of $V_{us}$ from both $f_K/f_π$ and from Kl3, and an updated result for $B_K$. We find significant finite volume effects in the nucleon axial charge $g_A$ for our $m_π=330$ MeV ensemble on a $(2.7 {\rm fm})^3$ lattice, and highlight the importance of large physical volumes for non-trivial nucleon physics.

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arXiv2007

Kaon Weak Matrix Elements in 2+1 flavor DWF QCD

$K \to π$ and $K \to 0$ weak matrix elements of $ΔS = 1$ operators have been measured in 2+1 flavor domain wall fermion (DWF) QCD on (3 fm)$^3$ lattices with $a^{-1} = 1.73(3)$ GeV. As is well known, using these matrix elements and chiral perturbation theory allows a determination of the $K \to ππ$ matrix elements that enter in the quantitative value for the $ΔI = 1/2$ rule and $ε^\prime/ε$. Two light dynamical sea quark masses have been used, along with six valence quark masses, with the lightest valence quark mass $\approx 1/10$ the physical strange quark mass. We report our results for lattice matrix elements in the $SU(3)_L \times SU(3)_R$ (27,1), (8,1), and (8,8) representations, paying particular attention to the statistical errors achieved after measurements on 75 configurations. We also report on our calculation of the non-perturbative renormalization coefficients for these $ΔS=1$ weak operators, using the Rome-Southampton method.

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arXiv2005

Baryons in 2+1 flavour domain wall QCD

We present results for some of the light baryon masses and their excited states in 2+1 flavour domain wall QCD. We considered several lattice spacings, with the DBW2 and Iwasaki gauge actions and different sea quark masses on a volume of $16^3\times32$ and a fifth dimension of size 8. All data were generated on the QCDOC machines. Despite large residual massses and a limited number of sea quark mass values with which to perform chiral extrapolations, our results are in reasonable agreement with experiment and scale within errors. Finite size effects on most ensembles appear to be small.

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