Sea contributions to hadron electric polarizabilities through reweighting

Walter Freeman, Andrei Alexandru, Frank X. Lee, Michael Lujan

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Abstract

We present the results of a reweighting calculation to compute the contribution of the charged quark sea to the neutron electric polarizability. The chief difficulty is the stochastic estimation of weight factors, and we present a hopping parameter expansion-based technique for reducing the stochastic noise, along with a discussion of why this particular reweighting is so difficult. We used this technique to estimate weight factors for 300 configurations of nHYP-clover fermions and compute the neutron polarizability, but the reweighting greatly inflates the overall statistical error, driven by the stochastic noise in the weight factors.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number288
JournalProceedings of Science
Volume29-July-2013
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, LATTICE 2013 - Mainz, Germany
Duration: Jul 29 2013Aug 3 2013

ASJC Scopus subject areas

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