Excited nucleon spectrum from lattice QCD with maximum entropy method

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We study excited states of the nucleon in quenched lattice QCD with the spectral analysis using the maximum entropy method. Our simulations are performed on three lattice sizes 16³× 32, 24³× 32 and 32³× 32, at β=6.0 to address the finite volume issue. We find a significant finite volume effect on the mass of the Roper resonance for light quark masses. After removing this systematic error, its mass becomes considerably reduced toward the direction to solve the level order puzzle between the Roper resonance N'(1440) and the negative-parity nucleon N*(1535).