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Wilson fermions in the epsilon regime

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2010-11-05 v1

Abstract

We extend the epsilon-expansion of continuum chiral perturbation theory to nonzero lattice spacing in the framework of Wilson Chiral Perturbation Theory. We distinguish various regimes by defining the relative power counting of the quark mass m and the lattice spacing a. We observe that for m ~ a Lambda^2_QCD, the explicit breaking of chiral symmetry in Wilson fermions is still driven by the quark mass and lattice corrections are highly suppressed. The lattice spacing effects become more pronounced for smaller quark masses and may lead to non-trivial corrections of the continuum results at next-to-leading order. We compute these corrections for standard current and density correlation functions. A fit to lattice data shows that these corrections are small, as expected.

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@article{arxiv.0910.2372,
  title  = {Wilson fermions in the epsilon regime},
  author = {Oliver Bar and Silvia Necco and Stefan Schaefer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.2372},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

Talk presented at the XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 26-31, 2009, Peking University, Beijing, China; 7 pages, 1 figure