Calculation of fermion loops for $\eta^\prime$ and nucleon scalar and   electromagnetic form factors
  The exact evaluation of the disconnected diagram contributions to the flavor-singlet pseudoscalar meson mass, the nucleon sigma term and the nucleon electromagnetic form factors, is carried out utilizing GPGPU technology with the NVIDIA CUDA platform. The disconnected loops are also computed using stochastic methods with several noise reduction techniques. Various dilution schemes as well as the truncated solver method are studied. We make a comparison of these stochastic techniques to the exact results and show that the number of noise vectors depends on the operator insertion in the fermionic loop. 
C. Alexandrou (Univ. of Cyprus and Cyprus Inst.), K. Hadjiyiannakou   (Univ. of Cyprus and Cyprus Inst.), G. Koutsou (Cyprus...
hep-lat hep-ph nucl-th