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Title: Chiral perturbation theory for staggered sea quarks and Ginsparg-Wilson valence quarks

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Institute of Physics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571 (Japan)
  2. Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130 (United States)
  3. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division T-16, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
  4. Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 (United States)

We study lattice QCD with staggered sea and Ginsparg-Wilson valence quarks. The Symanzik effective action for this mixed lattice theory, including the lattice spacing contributions of O(a{sup 2}), is derived. Using this effective theory we construct the leading-order chiral Lagrangian. The masses and decay constants of pseudoscalars containing two Ginsparg-Wilson valence quarks are computed at one-loop order.

OSTI ID:
20711461
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 72, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.054502; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English