LAT2006 - (other lattice conferences)
July 23-28, 2006
Tucson, Arizona
published December 18, 2006

Lattice 2006, the XXIV International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, was held from July 23-28, 2006 at the Starr Pass Hotel near Tucson, Arizona, USA, hosted by the University of Arizona Physics Department. The scientific program contained 25 plenary session talks and 193 parallel session contributions (talks and posters).

Topics in lattice QCD included: hadron spectroscopy; hadronic interactions and structure; algorithms, machines, and networks; chiral symmetry; QCD confinement and topology; quark masses, gauge couplings, and renormalization; electroweak decays and mixing; high temperature and density; and theoretical developments.

Topics beyond QCD included large Nc, Higgs, SUSY, gravity, and strings.

Editorial Board
Tom Blum, Michael Creutz, Carleton DeTar, Frithjof Karsch, Andreas Kronfeld, Colin Morningstar (chairman), David Richards, Junko Shigemitsu, Doug Toussaint

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Sessions
Preface
Plenary
Algorithms, Machines, and Networks
Beyond QCD: Large N, Higgs, SUSY, Gravity, Strings
Chiral Symmetry
Confinement and Topology
Electroweak Decays and Mixing
Hadronic Interactions and Structure
High Temperature and Density
Quark Masses, Gauge Couplings, and Renormalization
Spectroscopy
Theoretical Developments
Preface
Preface
C. Morningstar
Plenary
Progress in kaon physics on the lattice
Algorithms for dynamical overlap fermions
S. Schaefer
The sign problem in the epsilon-regime of QCD
K. Splittorff
Twisted mass QCD for weak matrix elements
C. Pena
Status Report on ILDG activities
K. Jansen
Light dynamical fermions on the lattice: toward the chiral regime of QCD
L. Giusti
D-branes and coherent topological charge structure in QCD
H. Thacker
Strong correlations in hot QCD
T. Hatsuda
Heavy flavor physics from lattice QCD
T. Onogi
QCD phase diagram: an overview
M. Stephanov
Rooted staggered fermions: good, bad or ugly?
S.R. Sharpe
Lattice field theory methods in modern biophysics
A. Duncan
Pushing lattice QCD to the edge: flavor physics
A. Cerri
Search for gluonic excitations in light unconventional mesons
P. Eugenio
Recent lattice QCD results on nucleon structure
K. Orginos
Lattice QCD at finite density
C. Schmidt
Towards a quantitative understanding of the Delta I=1/2 rule
P. Hernandez
The Rational Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm
M. Clark
Hot QCD and warm dark matter
M. Laine
QCD physics beyond the standard model and LHC searches
A. Nelson
The search for the fundamental QCD string in anti de Sitter space
R.C. Brower
Color superconductivity in ultra-dense quark matter
M. Alford
Recent progress in finite temperature lattice QCD
U.M. Heller
Advances and applications of lattice supersymmetry
J. Giedt
The one-flavor quark condensate and related problems
T. DeGrand
Algorithms, Machines, and Networks
Trends in computer technologies
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D. Barkai
Lattice simulation on graphics cards
2+1 flavor lattice QCD with Luscher's Domain-Decomposed HMC algorithm
Y. Kuramashi
Trajectory length and autocorrelation times: Nf=2 simulations in the Schrodinger functional
H. Meyer
An application of the UV-filtering preconditioner to the Polynomial Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm
K.I. Ishikawa
QCD simulations using polynomial-filtered multiple-time-scale molecular dynamics HMC
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M.J. Peardon
Dynamical overlap fermion simulations with a preconditioned Hybrid Monte Carlo force
J. Volkholz
Improvement of algorithms for dynamical overlap fermions
H. Matsufuru
Multi-step stochastic correction in dynamical fermion updating algorithms
E.E. Scholz
Status and physics plan of the PACS-CS Project
A. Ukawa
Progress in building the International Lattice Data Grid
Reweighting method in finite density lattice QCD
Morphological boundary detection for cluster analysis and HEP data classification
M. Mjahed
Simulations of clover fermions at light quark masses
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G. Schierholz
Beyond QCD: Large N, Higgs, SUSY, Gravity, Strings
String tensions of SU(N) gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions
B. Bringoltz
Strong to weak coupling transitions of SU(N) gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions
F. Bursa
The spectrum of SU(N) gauge theories at nonzero theta
H. Panagopoulos
About orientifold planar equivalence on the lattice
A. Patella
On the phase structure of a chiral invariant Higgs-Yukawa model
P. Gerhold
Overlap fermion in external gravity
Double hairpin diagrams and the planar equivalence of N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and one-flavor QCD
P. Keith-Hynes
Chiral Symmetry
Zero mode topology with dynamical overlap fermions
N.D. Cundy
Coherent lattice QCD
I. Horvath
Simulation of lattice gauge action from the overlap operator
K.F. Liu
Large statistics study of QCD topological charge distribution
S. Petrarca
Chiral lattice gauge theories from warped domain walls and Ginsparg-Wilson fermions
T. Bhattacharya
The method of gap domain-wall fermions
P. Vranas
Exploration of hybrid fermion formulations
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S. Krieg
Ginsparg-Wilson meson scattering on a staggered sea
D. O'Connell
JLQCD's dynamical overlap project
T. Kaneko
Mobility edge and locality of the overlap-Dirac operator with and without dynamical overlap fermions
N. Yamada
Dynamical overlap fermions in the epsilon-regime
H. Fukaya
Improved staggered eigenvalues and epsilon regime universality in SU(2)
A. Hart
Dynamical overlap fermion at fixed topology
S. Hashimoto
Confinement and Topology
Critical exponents for U(1) lattice gauge theory at finite temperature
B.A. Berg
Exploring the infrared Landau gauge propagators using large asymmetric lattices
P.J. Silva
Lattice study of the infrared behavior of QCD Green's functions in Landau gauge
A. Sternbeck
The QCD vacuum probed by overlap fermions
V. Weinberg
Z(2)-symmetric center vortex model with a first-order deconfinement transition
M. Engelhardt
Dual superconductivity in G2 group
G. Cossu
Abelian dominance in local unitary gauges and without gauge-fixing in pure SU(2) QCD
T. Sekido
Quark confinement and gauge invariant monopoles in SU(2) YM
S. Kato
String tension scaling in models of the confined phase
M. Ogilvie
Broadening of the confining flux tube joining higher-representation sources
S. Lottini
Infrared divergence of the color-Coulomb self-energy in Coulomb gauge QCD
Y. Nakagawa
RG decimation study of SU(2) gauge theory
A. Velytsky
Gluon mass generation and infrared Abelian dominance in Yang-Mills theory
A. Shibata
Monopole condensation in two-flavour Adjoint QCD
G. Lacagnina
The Z(2) gauge model revisited: as a possible testbed for the confinement and chiral symmetry phase transition of SU(2) lattice gauge theory
S. Hioki
Full QCD in external chromomagnetic field
L. Cosmai
Quantum fluctuations of k-strings: A case study.
P. Giudice
Exploring residual gauge symmetry breaking
M. Grady
Electroweak Decays and Mixing
Kaon B-parameters for generic Delta S=2 four-quark operators in quenched domain wall QCD
Y. Nakamura
B_K on 2+1 flavor Iwasaki DWF lattices
S. Cohen
Light meson masses and non-perturbative renormalisation in 2+1 flavour domain wall QCD
R.J. Tweedie
Matrix elements and diquark correlations in quenched QCD with overlap fermions.
C. Rebbi
Mixing kaons with mixed action chiral perturbation theory
C. Aubin
Bs mixing parameters in Nf=2+1 full QCD
J. Shigemitsu
Unitarity and the heavy quark expansion in the determination of semileptonic form factors
R. Van de Water
B meson decays from moving NRQCD on fine MILC lattices
K.Y. Wong
The $B\rightarrow D^* \ell \nu$ form factor from lattice QCD
J. Laiho
Charm physics with highly improved staggered quarks
E. Follana
Quenched penguins, the Delta I=1/2 rule, and epsilon prime/epsilon
E. Pallante
Preliminary analysis of $K\rightarrow \pi \pi$ with 2+1 flavor DWF lattices on QCDOC
Calculation of Delta I = 3/2 kaon weak matrix elements including two-pion interaction effects in finite volume
T. Yamazaki
$K\rightarrow \pi \ell \nu$ form factor with $N_f = 2+1$ dynamical domain wall fermions
J. Zanotti
SU(3) breaking effects in hyperon beta decay from lattice QCD
S. Sasaki
Lambda-bar, lambda_1, and Mb in three-flavor lattice QCD
E. Freeland
Mb and fBs from a combination of HQET and QCD
D. Guazzini
Leptonic widths of heavy quarkonia: QCD/NRQCD matching for the electromagnetic current at O(alpha_s v^2)
G. von Hippel
A study of the Bs-Bs-bar mass and width difference in 2+1 flavor lattice QCD
R. Evans
The form factors for the rare decay $B\rightarrow K \ell^+ \ell^-$ from three-flavor lattice QCD
R. Jain
B_K in unquenched QCD using improved staggered fermions
The decay constants f_B+ and f_D+ from three-flavor lattice QCD
J.N. Simone
Update on study of Kl3 form factors with dynamical domain wall quarks
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A. Soni
Hadronic Interactions and Structure
Nucleon form factors: probing the chiral limit
D. Pleiter
The N to Delta axial transition form factors in quenched and unquenched QCD
T. Leontiou
Electromagnetic and spin polarisabilities in lattice QCD
W. Detmold
Nucleon structure in the chiral regime with domain wall fermions on an improved staggered sea
D.B. Renner
Transverse spin densities from lattice QCD
P. Haegler
Nucleon structure in lattice QCD with dynamical domain-wall fermions quarks
S. Ohta
First and second moments of the strange parton distribution from Lattice QCD
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M. Deka
Distribution amplitudes of pseudoscalar mesons
W. Schroers
The first moment of the Kaon distribution amplitude from Nf=2+1 Domain Wall Fermions
A. Juttner
Energies and radial distributions of Bs mesons - the effect of hypercubic blocking
J. Koponen
Baryon correlators containing different diquarks from lattice simulations
Vector meson electromagnetic form factors
B.G. Lasscock
Hadron form factors using density-density correlators
G. Koutsou
Calculation of Neutron EDM in quenched and full QCD
E. Shintani
Neutron electric dipole moment from quenched overlap fermions
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M. Guertler
Nuclear Force from Lattice QCD
N. Ishii
Two-photon decay widths in charmonia
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R. Edwards
Rho meson decay from the lattice
N. Ishizuka
Strangeness magnetic moment from the stochastic estimator
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S.J. Dong
Investigation of the overlap of excited bottomonium states with hybrid operators
C. Ehmann
Operator product expansion on the lattice: analytic Wilson coefficients
H. Perlt
Light quark electromagnetic structure of baryons
A. Williams
High Temperature and Density
Towards the QCD phase diagram
P. de Forcrand
Searching for the elusive critical endpoint at finite temperature and isospin density
D. Sinclair
Quark number susceptibility of high temperature QCD
A. Hietanen
Exploring the chiral singularities of two color QCD at strong coupling
F.J. Jiang
Why (staggered fermions)^{1/4} fail at finite density
B. Svetitsky
Topology, chiral and Polyakov loop transitions at finite density in two-colour QCD
B. Alles Salom
Confining properties of two-color QCD at finite density
M. D'Elia
Partially quenched QCD with a chemical potential
J.C. Osborn
Avoiding the boson sign problem at finite chemical potential
M. Endres
The nature of QCD transition
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K. Szabo
Chiral transition in two-flavour QCD: an update
C. Pica
Analysis of the finite temperature transition for three flavor QCD using p4-improved staggered fermions
M. Cheng
Finite temperature phase transition of two-flavor QCD with an improved Wilson quark action
N. Ukita
QCD thermodynamics with Nf=2+1 near the continuum limit at realistic quark masses
T. Umeda
Singlet free energies and renormalized Polyakov loop in full QCD
K. Petrov
Charmonium spectral functions in Nf=2 QCD at high temperature
C. Allton
Spectral functions at non-zero momentum in hot QCD
J. Foley
Towards the continuum limit of screening lengths with chiral fermions
R.V. Gavai
Renormalization of infrared contributions to the QCD pressure
C. Torrero
Static quark free energies at finite temperature with two flavors of improved Wilson quarks
Y. Maezawa
Quark propagators at finite temperature with the clover action
M. Hamada
The QCD equation of state with asqtad staggered fermions
L. Levkova
Field theoretic study of a cold Fermi gas in the unitary limit
M. Wingate
Baryonic matter in the lattice Gross-Neveu model
U. Wenger
Effects of the anomaly on the QCD chiral phase transition
S. Chandrasekharan
Non-equilibrium signals of the SU(3) deconfining phase transition
A. Bazavov
Dynamical simulations of QCD at finite temperature with a truncated perfect action
S. Shcheredin
Equation of state for two-flavor QCD with an improved Wilson quark action at non-zero chemical potential
S. Ejiri
Twisted mass QCD thermodynamics: first results on apeNEXT
M.P. Lombardo
Analytical continuation from imaginary to real chemical potential in two-color QCD under scrutiny
A. Papa
Quark Masses, Gauge Couplings, and Renormalization
Testing UV-filtered ("fat link") clover fermions
S. Durr
Simulating at realistic quark masses: light quark masses
Y. Nakamura
Renormalization constants for lattice QCD: new results from Numerical Stochastic Perturbation Theory
F. Di Renzo
Non-perturbative scale evolution of four-fermion operators in two-flavour QCD
G. Herdoiza
Improving the gluon condensate in three-dimensionnal Yang-Mills theory
S. Caron-Huot
Improving perturbation theory with cactus diagrams
M. Constantinou
An improved action for heavy quarks
A. Kronfeld
One-loop renormalisation of lattice QCD operators for non-forward matrix elements: from clover to overlap fermions
A. Schiller
2-loop additive mass renormalization with clover fermions and Symanzik improved gluons
A. Skouroupathis
Update on the physics of light pseudoscalar mesons
R. Sugar
Spectroscopy
Orbital and radial excitations of static-light mesons
S. Ryan
Bs and Bc mesons in lattice QCD with exact chiral symmetry
T.H. Hsieh
Heavy baryon mass spectrum from lattice QCD with 2+1 flavors
Improvement of quark propagator estimation through domain decomposition
T. Burch
Light baryon spectrum using improved interpolating operators
I. Sato
Hadron spectrum with domain-wall valence quarks on an improved staggered sea.
D.G. Richards
Strong isospin breaking contribution to the neutron-proton mass difference
M. Savage
The isospin breaking effect on baryons with Nf=2 domain wall fermions
Improved heavy quark action
N.H. Christ
Spectrum of radial, orbital and gluonic excitations of charmonium
M.B. Oktay
Update on onium masses with three flavors of dynamical quarks
S. Gottlieb
Study of unquenching effects on heavy-heavy meson masses and decay constants
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N. Tantalo
An estimate of the eta and eta-prime meson masses in Nf=2+1 lattice QCD
T. Yoshie
2+1 flavor light hadron spectrum and quark masses with the O(a) improved Wilson-clover quark formalism
T. Ishikawa
Simulating at realistic quark masses: pseudoscalar decay constants and chiral logarithms
R. Horsley
Excited mesons from Nf=2 dynamical clover Wilson lattices
C. Hagen
Production and properties of 2+1 flavor DWF ensembles
R. Mawhinney
Baryon spectrum in 2+1 flavour domain wall QCD from QCDOC
C. Maynard
Exploratory study of the Ds spectrum in 2+1 domain wall QCD with heavy overlap
A. Trivini
Charmed spectroscopy from a nonperturbatively determined relativistic heavy quark action in full QCD
H.W. Lin
The static quark potential for dynamical domain wall fermion simulations
Chiral extrapolations in 2+1 flavor domain wall fermion simulations
Exotic and higher spin mesons in charmonium region
N. Mathur
Mass spectrum of 1-+ exotic mesons using the Maximum Entropy Method
M. Cook
First results in QCD with 2+1 light flavors using the fixed-point action
D. Hierl
Spectroscopy from canonical partition functions
B.C. Toth
Chiral forms and three-flavor operators for staggered baryons
J. Bailey
Taste breaking effects in scalar meson correlators
C. DeTar
Pseudoscalar flavor-singlets and staggered fermions
E. Gregory
The spectrum of charmonium-like vector mesons in lattice QCD
T.W. Chiu
Precision spectroscopy in light isovector, isoscalar and hybrid mesons
A. O Cais
Automatic O(a) improvement for twisted-mass QCD
S. Aoki
Towards large scale simulations with N_f=2 fully twisted mass fermions
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K. Jansen
First results with two light flavours of maximally twisted mass
C. Urbach
The spectrum of tmLQCD with quark and link smearing
A.M. Abdel-Rehim
Pion spectrum using improved staggered fermions
2+1 flavor QCD contributions to the muon anomalous magnetic moment
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T. Blum
Hybrid charmonium from lattice QCD
X.Q. Luo
The effect of reduced spatial symmetries on lattice states: results for non-zero linear momentum
D. Moore
Toward group theory operators for tmLQCD hadrons
R. Petry
Overlap fermions on a twisted mass sea
S. Schaefer
Theoretical Developments
New developments in 2D supersymmetric lattice theories
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D.B. Kaplan
Gross-Neveu model as a laboratory for fermion discretization
U. Wolff
An effectively chiral Yukawa model on a lattice
A. Horowitz
Nonzero chemical potential in the overlap Dirac operator and comparison to random matrix theory
J. Bloch
Definition and parametrization of non-perturbative effects in quenched QCD
Y. Meurice
Regularizing QCD with staggered fermions and the fourth root trick
C. Bernard
The rooted staggered determinant in the Schwinger model
R. Hoffmann
The chiral condensate on two-flavor staggered configurations from an overlap operator
A. Hasenfratz
Mass splitting of staggered fermions and SO(2D) Clifford algebra
M. Hatakeyama
Pion physics in two flavor strong coupling lattice QED
D. Cecile
Diseases with rooted staggered quarks
M. Creutz
Phase diagram of the three dimensional Thirring model - A Monte Carlo study
C. Strouthos