Full QED+QCD low-energy constants through reweighting

Phys Rev Lett. 2012 Aug 17;109(7):072002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.072002. Epub 2012 Aug 16.

Abstract

The effect of sea quark electromagnetic charge on meson masses is investigated, and first results for full QED+QCD low-energy constants are presented. The electromagnetic charge for sea quarks is incorporated in quenched QED+full QCD lattice simulations by a reweighting method. The reweighting factor, which connects quenched and unquenched QED, is estimated using a stochastic method on 2+1 flavor dynamical domain-wall quark ensembles.