We present results from a simulation of quenched overlap fermions with Luscher-Weisz gauge field action on lattices up to 24(3)48 and for pion masses down to approximate to 250 MeV. Among the quantities we study are the pion, rho, and nucleon masses; the light and strange quark masses; and the pion decay constant. The renormalization of the scalar and axial vector currents is done nonperturbatively in the RI-MOM scheme. The simulations are performed at two different lattice spacings, a approximate to 0.1 fm and approximate to 0.15 fm, and on two different physical volumes, to test the scaling properties of our action and to study finite volume effects. We compare our results with the predictions of chiral perturbation theory and compute several of its low-energy constants. The pion mass is computed in sectors of fixed topology as well.

We compute hadron masses and nucleon matrix elements in quenched QCD using overlap fermions.

We compute the lowest moments of the nucleon's structure functions using quenched overlap fermions at two different lattice spacings. The renormalisation is done nonperturbatively in the RI'-MOM-scheme.

Results for nucleon matrix elements (arising from moments of structure functions) and form factors from a mixture of runs using Wilson, clover and overlap fermions (both quenched and unquenched) are presented and compared in an effort to explore the size of the chiral ‘regime’, lattice spacing errors and quenching artefacts. While no run covers this whole range of effects the partial results indicate a picture of small lattice spacing errors, small quenching effects and only reaching the chiral regime at rather light quark masses.

We present first results from a simulation of quenched overlap fermions with improved gauge field action. Among the quantities we study are the spectral properties of the overlap operator, the chiral condensate and topological charge, quark and hadron masses, and selected nucleon matrix elements. To make contact with continuum physics, we compute the renormalization constants of quark bilinear operators in perturbation theory and beyond.

Paraldor is an experiment in bringing the power of categorical languages to lattice QCD computations. Our target language is Aldor, which allows the capture of the mathematical structure of physics directly in the structure of the code using the concepts of categories, domains and their inter-relationships in a way which is not otherwise possible with current popular languages such as Fortran, C, C++ or Java. By writing high level physics code portably in Aldor, and implementing switchable machine dependent high performance back-ends in C or assembler, we gain all the power of categorical languages such as modularity, portability, readability and efficiency.