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Asymptotic behavior of cutoff effects in Yang–Mills theory and in Wilson’s lattice QCD

Nikolai Husung, Peter Marquard, Rainer Sommer

2020The European Physical Journal C44 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Abstract Discretization effects of lattice QCD are described by Symanzik’s effective theory when the lattice spacing, a , is small. Asymptotic freedom predicts that the leading asymptotic behavior is $$\sim a^{n_{\mathrm{min}}}[{\bar{g}}^2(a^{-1})]^{\hat{\gamma }_1} \sim a^{n_{\mathrm{min}}}\left[ \frac{1}{-\log (a\Lambda )}\right] ^{\hat{\gamma }_1}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mo>∼</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mi>a</mml:mi><mml:msub><mml:mi>n</mml:mi><mml:mi>min</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:msup><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mo>[</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mover><mml:mrow><mml:mi>g</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo>¯</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mover></mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mo>(</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mi>a</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:msup><mml:mo>)</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>]</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mover><mml:mi>γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>^</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:msup><mml:mo>∼</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mi>a</mml:mi><mml:msub><mml:mi>n</mml:mi><mml:mi>min</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:msup><mml:msup><mml:mfenced><mml:mfrac><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mrow><mml:mo>-</mml:mo><mml:mo>log</mml:mo><mml:mo>(</mml:mo><mml:mi>a</mml:mi><mml:mi>Λ</mml:mi><mml:mo>)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mfrac></mml:mfenced><mml:msub><mml:mover><mml:mi>γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>^</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:msup></mml:mrow></mml:math> . For spectral quantities, $${n_{\mathrm{min}}}=d$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>n</mml:mi><mml:mi>min</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mi>d</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:math> is given in terms of the (lowest) canonical dimension, $$d+4$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>d</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mn>4</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math> , of the operators in the local effective Lagrangian and $$\hat{\gamma }_1$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msub><mml:mover><mml:mi>γ</mml:mi><mml:mo>^</mml:mo></mml:mover><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math> is proportional to the leading eigenvalue of their one-loop anomalous dimension matrix $$\gamma ^{(0)}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msup><mml:mi>γ</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mo>(</mml:mo><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mo>)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:msup></mml:math> . We determine $$\gamma ^{(0)}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msup><mml:mi>γ</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mo>(</mml:mo><mml:mn>0</mml:mn><mml:mo>)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:msup></mml:math> for Yang–Mills theory ( $${n_{\mathrm{min}}}=2$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>n</mml:mi><mml:mi>min</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math> ) and discuss consequences in general and for perturbatively improved short distance observables. With the help of results from the literature, we also discuss the $${n_{\mathrm{min}}}=1$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>n</mml:mi><mml:mi>min</mml:mi></mml:msub><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math> case of Wilson fermions with perturbative $$\mathrm{O}(a)$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>O</mml:mi><mml:mo>(</mml:mo><mml:mi>a</mml:mi><mml:mo>)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:math> improvement and the discretization effects specific to the flavor currents. In all cases known so far, the discretization effects are found to vanish faster than the naive $$\sim a^{n_{\mathrm{min}}}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mo>∼</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mi>a</mml:mi><mml:msub><mml:mi>n</mml:mi><mml:mi>min</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:msup></mml:mrow></mml:math> behavior with rather small logarithmic corrections – in contrast to the two-dimensional O(3) sigma model.

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