Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
1998-02-27
Phys.Rev. D58 (1998) 034502
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
14 pages, 7 figures (minor changes to some phraseology and references)
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.58.034502
We make a comparison of two tadpole renormalization schemes in the context of the quarkonium hyperfine splittings in lattice NRQCD. Improved gauge-field and NRQCD actions are analyzed using the mean-link $u_{0,L}$ in Landau gauge, and using the fourth root of the average plaquette $u_{0,P}$. Simulations are done for $c\bar c$, $b\bar c$, and $b\bar b$ systems. The hyperfine splittings are computed both at leading and at next-to-leading order in the relativistic expansion. Results are obtained at lattice spacings in the range of about 0.14~fm to 0.38~fm. A number of features emerge, all of which favor tadpole renormalization using $u_{0,L}$. This includes much better scaling behavior of the hyperfine splittings in the three quarkonium systems when $u_{0,L}$ is used. We also find that relativistic corrections to the spin splittings are smaller when $u_{0,L}$ is used, particularly for the $c\bar c$ and $b\bar c$ systems. We also see signs of a breakdown in the NRQCD expansion when the bare quark mass falls below about one in lattice units. Simulations with $u_{0,L}$ also appear to be better behaved in this context: the bare quark masses turn out to be larger when $u_{0,L}$ is used, compared to when $u_{0,P}$ is used on lattices with comparable spacings. These results also demonstrate the need to go beyond tree-level tadpole improvement for precision simulations.
Shakespeare Norman H.
Trottier Howard D.
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