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SU(3) Lattice Gauge Theory in the Fundamental--Adjoint Plane and Scaling Along the Wilson Axis
We present further evidence for the bulk nature of the phase transition line
in the fundamental--adjoint action plane of SU(3) lattice gauge theory.
Computing the string tension and some glueball masses along the thermal phase
transition line of finite temperature systems with , which was found to
join onto the bulk transition line at its endpoint, we find that the ratio
remains approximately constant. However, the mass of the
glueball decreases as the endpoint of the bulk transition line is
approached, while the other glueball masses appear unchanged. This is
consistent with the notion that the bulk transition line ends in a critical
endpoint, with the continuum limit there being a theory with a
diverging correlation length only in the channel. We comment on the
implications for the scaling behavior along the fundamental or Wilson axis.Comment: 10 pages. Plain LaTeX file. 4 postscript figures added in a separate
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A new method to measure the chiral condensate in lattice QCD using Wilson fermions
Parity and flavor symmetry is not broken in QCD. Using this fact, we propose
a new method to measure the chiral condensate in lattice QCD using Wilson
fermions with an operator that breaks parity and flavor in addition to the
chiral symmetry.Comment: 9 pages, LaTeX, no figure
Wilson chiral perturbation theory, Wilson-Dirac operator eigenvalues and clover improvement
Chiral perturbation theory for eigenvalue distributions, and equivalently
random matrix theory, has recently been extended to include lattice effects for
Wilson fermions. We test the predictions by comparison to eigenvalue
distributions of the Hermitian Wilson-Dirac operator from pure gauge (quenched)
ensembles. We show that the lattice effects are diminished when using clover
improvement for the Dirac operator. We demonstrate that the leading Wilson
low-energy constants associated with Wilson (clover) fermions can be determined
using spectral information of the respective Dirac operator at finite volume.Comment: Presented at "Xth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum," October
2012, Garching, Germany. To appear as PoS (Confinement X) 07
The Schr\"odinger functional running coupling with staggered fermions and its application to many flavor QCD
We discuss the Schr\"odinger functional in lattice QCD with staggered
fermions and relate it, in the classical continuum limit, to the Schr\"odinger
functional regularized with Wilson fermions. We compute the strong coupling
constant defined via the Schr\"odinger functional with staggered fermions at
one loop and show that it agrees with the continuum running coupling constant
in the Schr\"odinger functional formalism. We compute this running coupling in
the ``weak coupling phase'' of many flavor QCD numerically at several values of
the bare coupling and for several system sizes from to 12. The results
indicate that the -function for 16 flavors has the opposite sign than
for few flavor QCD, in agreement with a recent claim, and with the perturbative
prediction.Comment: 3 pages with 2 ps figures; to appear in the proceedings of Lattice
'97, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 22--26, 199
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