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arXiv · 1004.3978

Non-perturbative improvement of quark mass renormalization in two-flavour lattice QCD

Abstract

We non-perturbatively determine the renormalization constant and the improvement coefficients relating the renormalized current and subtracted quark mass in O(a) improved two-flavour lattice QCD. We employ the Schrödinger functional scheme and fix the physical extent of the box by working at a constant value of the renormalized coupling. Our calculation yields results which cover two regions of bare parameter space. One is the weak-coupling region suitable for volumes of about half a fermi. By making simulations in this region, quarks as heavy as the bottom can be propagated with the full relativistic QCD action and renormalization problems in HQET can be solved non-perturbatively by a matching to QCD in finite volume. The other region refers to the common parameter range in large-volume simulations of two-flavour lattice QCD, where our results have particular relevance for charm physics applications.

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Patrick Fritzsch, Jochen Heitger, Nazario Tantalo. 2010-10-05. Non-perturbative improvement of quark mass renormalization in two-flavour lattice QCD. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep08(2010)074

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