Scaling test for Wilson twisted mass QCD

Collaboration
Dec, 2003
15 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 586 (2004) 432-438
e-Print:
Report number:
  • DESY-03-198,
  • SFB-CPP-03-56

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Abstract:
We present a first scaling test of twisted mass QCD with pure Wilson quarks for a twisting angle of pi/2. We have computed the vector meson mass and the pseudoscalar decay constant for different values of beta at fixed value of r_0 m_PS. The results obtained in the quenched approximation are compared with data for pure Wilson and non-perturbatively O(a) improved Wilson computations. We show that our results from Wilson twisted mass QCD show clearly reduced lattice spacing errors, consistent with O(a) improvement and without the need of any improvement terms added. These results thus provide numerical evidence of the prediction in ref. [1].
Note:
  • 15 pages, 4 figures: v2: two typos corrected, accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B Report-no: DESY 03-198, SFB/CPP-03-56
  • fermion: lattice field theory
  • gauge field theory: SU(3)
  • mass: twist
  • vector meson: mass
  • pseudoscalar meson: decay constant
  • scaling
  • approximation: quenching
  • numerical calculations: Monte Carlo