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An alternate smearing method for Wilson loops in lattice QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

A gauge field link smearing method developed for calculations with staggered fermions, namely the use of unitarized fat7 links, is applied to mesonic and baryonic Wilson loop calculations. This method is found to be very effective for reducing statistical fluctuations for large Wilson loops. Examination of chromo-electric field distributions shows that self-interactions of the static sources are reduced when unitarized fat7 smearing is used but long-distance inter-quark effects are unchanged.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0402009,
  title  = {An alternate smearing method for Wilson loops in lattice QCD},
  author = {F. Okiharu and R. M. Woloshyn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0402009},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 pages with 9 figures, figure and reference added