Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1848389 | Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements | 2006 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Because the propagators of flavor-singlet states incorporate disconnected diagrams, they are uniquely sensitive to any differences in the actions governing sea and valence fermions on the lattice. As such, they present an important test of the validity of the “fourth-root trick” in the staggered fermion formulation. The pseudoscalar's relationship to topological charge also makes it of theoretical interest. We present preliminary results from our measurements of flavor-singlet pseudoscalar mesons on 2+1 flavor Asqtad lattices, and discuss some strategies for improving the signal-to-error ratio of disconnected singlet correlators.
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