Epsilon regime calculations with reweighted clover fermions

Abstract

We perform fully dynamical simulations at small quark masses by reweighting in the quark mass, calculating the weight factors stochastically. This approach avoids some of the technical difficulties associated with direct simulations. We find that the weight factors fluctuate only moderately on nHYP smeared dynamical Wilson-clover ensembles, and demonstrate that the overlap between the original and reweighted configurations is large both for short and long distance observables. We could successfully reweight 16^4, (1.85fm)^4 volume configurations from m_q 20 MeV to m_q~5 MeV, and 24^4, (2.77fm)^4 configurations from m_q~8MeV to m_q~MeV quark masses, reaching the epsilon-regime. Using the pseudoscalar and axialvector correlators we predict the low energy constants Sigma and F and study their volume and mass dependence.