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Improvement of the staggered fermion operators

Journal Article · · Physical Review, D
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  1. Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027 (United States)
We present a complete and detailed discussion of the finite lattice spacing corrections to staggered fermion matrix elements. Expanding upon arguments of Sharpe, we explicitly implement the Symanzik improvement program demonstrating the absence of order a terms in the Symanzik improved action. We propose a general program to improve fermion operators to remove all O(a) corrections from their matrix elements, and demonstrate this program for the examples of matrix elements of fermion bilinears and B{sub K}. We find the former does have O(a) corrections while the latter does not. Also, we give an explicit form of lattice currents which are accurate to order a{sup 2} at the tree level. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}
OSTI ID:
471223
Journal Information:
Physical Review, D, Journal Name: Physical Review, D Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 55; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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