Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
1996-04-04
Phys.Rev.D55:3933-3957,1997
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
54 pages; 5 files for figures, 4 for tables, 2 for macros (all included); PostScript also at http://www-theory.fnal.gov/peop
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.55.3933
This paper presents a formulation of lattice fermions applicable to all quark masses, large and small. We incorporate interactions from previous light-fermion and heavy-fermion methods, and thus ensure a smooth connection to these limiting cases. The couplings in improved actions are evaluated for arbitrary fermion mass~$m_q$, without expansions around small- or large-mass limits. We treat both the action and external currents. By interpreting on-shell improvement criteria through the lattice theory's Hamiltonian, one finds that cutoff artifacts factorize into the form $b_n(m_qa)[\vek{p}a]^{s_n}$, where $\vek{p}$ is a momentum characteristic of the system under study, $s_n$ is related to the dimension of the $n$th interaction, and $b_n(m_qa)$ is a bounded function, numerically always~$\order(1)$ or less. In heavy-quark systems $\vek{p}$ is typically rather smaller than the fermion mass~$m_q$. Therefore, artifacts of order $(m_qa)^s$ do not arise, even when $m_qa\gsim1$. An important by-product of our analysis is an interpretation of the Wilson and Sheikholeslami-Wohlert actions applied to nonrelativistic fermions.
El-Khadra Aida X.
Kronfeld Andreas S.
Mackenzie Paul B.
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