Universality of Mixed Action Extrapolation Formulae

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that mixed action effective field theories with chirally symmetric valence fermions have universal extrapolation formulae up to next-to-leading order, simplifying lattice QCD calculations across various discretization methods.

Contribution

It proves the universality of mixed action extrapolation formulae for chirally symmetric valence fermions, enabling consistent determination of physical coefficients across different sea quark discretizations.

Findings

Universality of extrapolation formulae up to next-to-leading order.

Application of the prescription to nucleon matrix elements.

Determination of the neutron EDM extrapolation formula.

Abstract

Mixed action theories with chirally symmetric valence fermions exhibit very desirable features both at the level of the lattice calculations as well as in the construction and implementation of the low energy mixed action effective field theory. In this work we show that when such a mixed action effective field theory is projected onto the valence sector, both the Lagrangian and the extrapolation formulae become universal in form through next to leading order, for all variants of discretization methods used for the sea fermions. Our conclusion relies on the chiral nature of the valence quarks. The result implies that for all sea quark methods which are in the same universality class as QCD, the numerical values of the physical coefficients in the various mixed action chiral Lagrangians will be the same up to lattice spacing dependent corrections. This allows us to construct a prescription to determine the mixed action extrapolation formulae for a large class of hadronic correlation functions computed in partially quenched chiral perturbation theory at the one-loop level. For specific examples, we apply this prescription to the nucleon twist--2 matrix elements and the nucleon--nucleon system. In addition, we determine the mixed action extrapolation formula for the neutron EDM as this provides a nice example of a theta-dependent observable; these observables are exceptions to our prescription.