Exploiting finite-size-effects to simulate full QCD with light quarks - a progress report

TL;DR

This paper reports progress on the GRAL project, which uses finite-size-scaling techniques to simulate full QCD with light quarks, aiming for realistic quark masses below the vector meson decay threshold.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach combining finite-size-scaling techniques to efficiently simulate full QCD with light dynamical Wilson quarks.

Findings

Progress in simulating full QCD with light quarks

Implementation of finite-size-scaling techniques

Achieved simulations below the vector meson decay threshold

Abstract

We present a report on the status of the GRAL project (Going Realistic And Light), which aims at simulating full QCD with two dynamical Wilson quarks below the vector meson decay threshold, m_ps/m_v < 0.5, making use of finite-size-scaling techniques.