Improvement and Taste Symmetry Breaking for Staggered Quarks

E. Follana; C. Davies; A. Hart; P. Lepage; Q. Mason; H. Trottier

doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(03)02589-1

Improvement and Taste Symmetry Breaking for Staggered Quarks

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-11-10 v1

Authors: E. Follana , C. Davies , A. Hart , P. Lepage , Q. Mason , H. Trottier

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Abstract

We compare several improved actions for staggered quarks. We study the effect of improvement on the taste changing interactions by calculating the splitting in the pion spectrum. We investigate the effect of the improvement on some topological properties.

Keywords

staggered quarks improved actions taste symmetry breaking pion spectrum topological properties

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0406021,
  title  = {Improvement and Taste Symmetry Breaking for Staggered Quarks},
  author = {E. Follana and C. Davies and A. Hart and P. Lepage and Q. Mason and H. Trottier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0406021},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

3 pages, 3 figures, Lattice 2003 proceedings

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