The  Goals of this  DOE Grand Challenge Project are  to

• study the spectroscopy of hadrons made up of light-light, heavy-light, and heavy-heavy quarks;
• study the spectroscopy of glueballs and exotic hadrons;
• provide estimates of up, down, strange, charm, and bottom quark masses;
• calculate the strong coupling constant;
• calculate the decay constants for light and heavy-light mesons;
• calculate the form factors  for the semi-leptonic decays of  B and D meson ;
• calculate the form factor for the radiative decay of  B to K* gamma;
• calculate the matrix elements of the four fermion operators needed to study CP violation;
• investigate the properties of QCD at finite temperature;
• develop better algorithms and improve the lattice methodology.

Current Activities

•  Weak matrix elements with staggered fermions (NERSC)
•  Phenomenology of heavy-light systems
•  Non-perturbative determination of renormalization constants
•  Masses of Exotic Mesons
•  Semileptonic Form Factors of Heavy-Light Mesons
•  Decay Constants of Heavy-Light Mesons

Project Participants

•  Cornell University
  • Peter Lepage

•  Indiana University
  • Steven Gottlieb

•  Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Tanmoy Bhattacharya
  • Rajan Gupta
  • Weonjong Lee

•  Nordita
  • Kari Rummukainen

•  Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
  • Urs M. Heller

•  The Ohio State University
  • Gregory Kilcup
  • Junko Shigemitsu
  • Arifa Ali Khan

•  University of Arizona, Tucson
  • Doug Toussaint

•  University of California at Santa Barbara
  • Robert Sugar

•  University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Thomas DeGrand

•  University of Glasgow
  • Christine Davies
  • Sara Collins

•  University of Kentucky
  • John Sloan

•  University of the Pacific
  • James Hetrick

•  University of Utah
  • Carlton DeTar
  • Craig McNeile

•  University of Washington, Seattle
  • Stephen Sharpe

•  Washington University, St. Louis
  • Claude Bernard

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