Published May 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Lattice cutoff effects for FDs with improved Wilson fermions - a final lesson from the quenched case

  • 1. Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Wilhelm-Klemm-Strasse 9, D-48149 Muenster (Germany)
  • 2. Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz, Institut fuer Kernphysik, Johann-Joachim-Becher Weg 45, D-55099 Mainz (Germany)

Description

In view of the recent excitement about a tension between determinations of FDs from experiment and from simulations of lattice QCD with dynamical quarks, we try to clear up the picture of lattice determinations in the continuum limit of the quenched approximation. For O(a) improved Wilson quarks we see linear scaling in the squared lattice spacing a2 only for a ∼< 0.08 fm. For coarser lattices we observe significant contaminations from higher order cutoff effects. As an aside we also study the scaling of the charm quark mass and the ratio of the vector to the pseudo-scalar decay constant and the spin-splitting.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/05/101

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
5
Journal Issue
2009
Journal Page Range
p. 101
ISSN
1126-6708

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Collaborations
ALPHA collaboration