Electromagnetic Form Factors of Charmed Baryons in Lattice QCD

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This thesis presents the first lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) approach to the charmed baryon regime, building on the knowledge and experience gained with former lattice QCD applications to nucleon structure. The thesis provides valuable insights into the dynamics of yet unobserved charmed baryon systems. Most notably, it confirms that the expectations of model or effective field theoretical calculations of heavy-hadron systems hold qualitatively, while also demonstrating that they conflict with the quantitative results, pointing to a tension between these complementary approaches. Further, the book presents a cutting-edge approach to understanding the structure and dynamics of hadrons made of quarks and gluons using QCD, and successfully extends the approach to charmed hadrons. In particular, the thesis investigate a peculiar property of charmed hadrons whose dynamics, i.e., structure, deviates from their counterparts, e.g., those of protons and neutrons, by employing the lattice QCD approach —a state-of-the-art numerical method and the powerful ab initio, non-perturbative method. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction (Kadir Utku Can)....Pages 3-14 Quantum Chromodynamics (Kadir Utku Can)....Pages 15-26 Lattice Formulation of QCD (Kadir Utku Can)....Pages 27-44 Front Matter ....Pages 45-45 Theoretical Formalism and Simulation Setup (Kadir Utku Can)....Pages 47-67 Results and Discussions (Kadir Utku Can)....Pages 69-116 Front Matter ....Pages 117-117 Summary, Conclusions and Prospects (Kadir Utku Can)....Pages 119-122 Back Matter ....Pages 123-125