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The saga of rooted staggered quarks

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2008-04-30 v2

Abstract

I look at the rooting controversy from a historical point of view and review how I have come to the conclusion that these simulations involving staggered quarks must be discarded.

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@article{arxiv.0804.4307,
  title  = {The saga of rooted staggered quarks},
  author = {Michael Creutz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.4307},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

HTML, about 5 pages, 2 figures. Revision adds some references and mollifies the discussion slightly