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Two Loop Computation of the Schroedinger Functional in Lattice QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

We compute the Schroedinger functional (SF) for the case of lattice QCD with Wilson fermions (with and without SW improvement) at two-loop order in lattice perturbation theory. This allows us to extract the three-loop beta-function in the SF-scheme. These results are required to compute the running coupling, the Lambda-parameter and quark masses by finite size techniques with negligible systematic errors. In addition our results enable the implementation of two-loop O(a) improvement in SF-simulations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9911018,
  title  = {Two Loop Computation of the Schroedinger Functional in Lattice QCD},
  author = {Achim Bode and Peter Weisz and Ulli Wolff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9911018},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

30 pages, numerical changes in eqs.(A.9), (A.10), (5.6), (5.9), (5.12) due to the revision of hep-lat/9801007v2 (Christou et al.)