Session R9: Lattice QCD in Elementary Particle Physics

10:45 AM–12:33 PM, Monday, April 14, 2008
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - Promenade E

Sponsoring Unit: DCOMP
Chair: Steven Gottlieb, Indiana University

Abstract: R9.00003 : The removal of critical slowing down in lattice QCD

11:57 AM–12:33 PM

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Author:

  Michael Clark
    (Boston University)

The quark mass dependence of the computational cost in lattice QCD has proven to be a major obstacle against realistic calculation. I present recent progress in this area, specifically, a new multigrid algorithm which essentially removes this mass dependence.