出版社:SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要:We present the results of an extended scaling test of quenched Wilson twisted mass QCD. We
fix the twist angle by using two definitions of the critical mass, the first obtained by requiring
the vanishing of the pseudoscalar meson mass mPS for standard Wilson fermions and the second
by requiring restoration of parity at non-zero value of the twisted mass m and subsequently
extrapolating to m → 0. Depending on the choice of the critical mass we simulate at values of
b ∈ [5.7,6.45], for a range of pseudoscalar meson masses 250 MeV . mPS . 1 GeV and we
perform the continuum limit for the pseudoscalar meson decay constant fPS and various hadron
masses (vector meson mV , baryon octet moct and baryon decuplet mdec) at fixed value of r0mPS.
For both definitions of the critical mass, lattice artifacts are consistent with O(a) improvement.
However, with the second definition, large O(a2) discretization errors present at small quark mass
with the first definition are strongly suppressed. The results in the continuum limit are in very
good agreement with those from the Alpha and CP-PACS Collaborations.