Evidence of current-enhanced excited states in lattice QCD three-point functions
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| author | Barca, Lorenzo |
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| contents | Excited-state contamination remains one of the leading sources of systematic uncertainty in the precise determination of hadron structure observables from lattice QCD. In this work, I present a general mechanism, motivated by meson dominance and implemented through the variational method, that identifies which excited states are enhanced by the choice of inserted current and kinematics. The argument is supported by numerical evidence and predictions from chiral perturbation theory across different hadronic channels, in particular in the nucleon sector, and provides both conceptual insight and practical guidance for controlling excited-state effects in hadron three-point function analyses. |
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| spellingShingle | Evidence of current-enhanced excited states in lattice QCD three-point functions Barca, Lorenzo High Energy Physics - Lattice Excited-state contamination remains one of the leading sources of systematic uncertainty in the precise determination of hadron structure observables from lattice QCD. In this work, I present a general mechanism, motivated by meson dominance and implemented through the variational method, that identifies which excited states are enhanced by the choice of inserted current and kinematics. The argument is supported by numerical evidence and predictions from chiral perturbation theory across different hadronic channels, in particular in the nucleon sector, and provides both conceptual insight and practical guidance for controlling excited-state effects in hadron three-point function analyses. |
| title | Evidence of current-enhanced excited states in lattice QCD three-point functions |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Lattice |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17195 |