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This work presents technical details of determining the finite-volume energy spectra for the scattering amplitude of the coupled-channel πΣ−K¯N from lattice QCD data. The importance of reliably extracting such spectra lies in the crucial dependence of the hadronic scattering amplitudes analysis on the energy spectrum when using L\"{u}scher's formalism. Results of the methods used are presented and the final finite-volume spectra are shown. The analysis of the scattering amplitude based on these results, exhibits a two-pole structure for the Λ(1405), a virtual bound state below the πΣ threshold and a resonance pole right below the K¯N threshold. 

A lattice QCD computation of the coupled channel πΣ–¯KN scattering amplitudes in the Λ(1405) region is detailed. Results are obtained using a single ensemble of gauge field configurations with Nf=2+1 dynamical quark flavors and mπ≈200  MeV and mK≈487  MeV. Hermitian correlation matrices using both single baryon and meson-baryon interpolating operators for a variety of different total momenta and irreducible representations are used. Several parametrizations of the two-channel scattering K-matrix are utilized to obtain the scattering amplitudes from the finite-volume spectrum. The amplitudes, continued to the complex energy plane, exhibit a virtual bound state below the πΣ threshold and a resonance pole just below the ¯KN threshold. 

This Letter presents the first lattice QCD computation of the coupled channel πΣ−¯KN scattering amplitudes at energies near 1405 MeV. These amplitudes contain the resonance Λ(1405) with strangeness S=−1 and isospin, spin, and parity quantum numbers I(JP)=0(1/2−). However, whether there is a single resonance or two nearby resonance poles in this region is controversial theoretically and experimentally. Using single-baryon and meson-baryon operators to extract the finite-volume stationary-state energies to obtain the scattering amplitudes at slightly unphysical quark masses corresponding to mπ≈200  MeV and mK≈487  MeV, this study finds the amplitudes exhibit a virtual bound state below the πΣ threshold in addition to the established resonance pole just below the ¯KN threshold. Several parametrizations of the two-channel K matrix are employed to fit the lattice QCD results, all of which support the two-pole picture suggested by SU(3) chiral symmetry and unitarity. 

This work presents technical details of determining the finite-volume energy spectra for the scattering amplitude of the coupled-channel πΣ−K¯N from lattice QCD data. The importance of reliably extracting such spectra lies in the crucial dependence of the hadronic scattering amplitudes analysis on the energy spectrum when using L\"{u}scher's formalism. Results of the methods used are presented and the final finite-volume spectra are shown. The analysis of the scattering amplitude based on these results, exhibits a two-pole structure for the Λ(1405), a virtual bound state below the πΣ threshold and a resonance pole right below the K¯N threshold. 

We present the estimation of the long distance behaviour of the vector-vector correlator computed on a lattice QCD ensemble generated with 2 + 1 flavour physical Wilson clover quarks. The long distance regime of the correlator is dominated by multi-hadronic scattering states. We reconstruct the correlator in this regime using the pion-pion scattering states in the 𝐼 = 1 channel. The vector-vector correlator appears in the integrand to estimate the hadronic vacuum polarization contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. Therefore, an improved estimation of the correlator will help resolve the tension between (𝑔 − 2)𝜇 experiment and theory. 

A<sc>bstract</sc> We study the interactions of systems of two and three nondegenerate mesons composed of pions and kaons at maximal isospin using lattice QCD, specificallyπ⁺K⁺,π⁺π⁺K⁺andK⁺K⁺π⁺. Utilizing the stochastic LapH method, we determine the spectrum of these systems on two CLSN_f= 2 + 1 ensembles with pion masses of 200 MeV and 340 MeV, and include many levels in different momentum frames. We constrain the K matrices describing two- and three-particle interactions by fitting the spectrum to the results predicted by the finite-volume formalism, including up topwaves. This requires also results for theπ⁺π⁺andK⁺K⁺spectrum, which have been obtained previously on the same configurations. We explore different fitting strategies, comparing fits to energy shifts with fits to energies boosted to the rest frame, and also comparing simultaneous global fits to all relevant two- and three-particle channels to those where we first fit two-particle channels and then add in the three-particle information. We provide the first determination of the three-particle K matrix inπ⁺π⁺K⁺andK⁺K⁺π⁺systems, finding statistically significant nonzero results in most cases. We includesandpwaves in the K matrix forπ⁺K⁺scattering, finding evidence for an attractivep-wave scattering length. We compare our results to Chiral Perturbation Theory, including an investigation of the impact of discretization errors, for which we provide the leading order predictions obtained using Wilson Chiral Perturbation Theory.