Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2010-04-02
Phys.Rev.D82:074501,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
36 pages, 11 figures, revised version to be published. Revisions include discussion of autocorrelations and several clarificat
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.82.074501
We study the lattice spacing dependence, or scaling, of physical quantities using the highly improved staggered quark (HISQ) action introduced by the HPQCD/UKQCD collaboration, comparing our results to similar simulations with the asqtad fermion action. Results are based on calculations with lattice spacings approximately 0.15, 0.12 and 0.09 fm, using four flavors of dynamical HISQ quarks. The strange and charm quark masses are near their physical values, and the light-quark mass is set to 0.2 times the strange-quark mass. We look at the lattice spacing dependence of hadron masses, pseudoscalar meson decay constants, and the topological susceptibility. In addition to the commonly used determination of the lattice spacing through the static quark potential, we examine a determination proposed by the HPQCD collaboration that uses the decay constant of a fictitious "unmixed s bar s" pseudoscalar meson. We find that the lattice artifacts in the HISQ simulations are much smaller than those in the asqtad simulations at the same lattice spacings and quark masses.
Bazavov Alexei
Bernard Claude
collaboration MILC
de Water Ruth S. Van
DeTar Carleton
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