Non-perturbative O(a) improvement of the vector current

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DESY97-173

Non-perturbativeO(a)improvementofthevectorcurrent∗

M.GuagnelliaandR.Sommerb

aCERN,TheoryDivision,1211Geneva23,Switzerland

bDESY-IfH,Platanenallee6,D-15738Zeuthen,Germany

Wediscussnon–perturbativeimprovementofthevectorcurrent,usingtheSchr¨odingerFunctionalformalism.ByconsideringasuitableWardidentity,wecomputetheimprovementcoefficientwhichgivestheO(a)mixingofthetensorcurrentwiththevectorcurrent.

1.INTRODUCTION

ItiswellknownthatinWilson’slatticeQCD

discretizationerrorsreceivecontributionsthat

arelinearinthelatticespacing.Themostobvi-

ousrecipetoreducethem—namelytogotothe

continuumlimitbyperformingnumericalsimula-

tionsatsmallerlatticespacings—representsstill

ahardtask,eveninthequenchedapproximation.

FollowingSymanzik[1],latticeartifactscanbe

removedorderbyorderinabyaddingappro-

priatehigher–dimensionaloperatorstotheaction

andtothefieldswhosecorrelationfunctionsare

ofinterest.Ifonerestrictsoneselfbyrequiring

improvementonlyforon–shellquantities[2],such

asparticlemassesandmatrixelementsbetween

physicalstates,thestructureoftheimprovedac-

tionforQCDandoftheimprovedcurrentsis

rathersimple.Thegeneraltheorywasdeveloped

indetailinref.[3].Inthefollowingwewilluse

thesamenotationwithoutfurtherreference.

Inthequenchedapproximation,theimproved

actionwasdeterminednon–perturbativelyfor

couplings0≤g0≤1[4].

Therenormalizedandimprovedaxial–vector

andvectorcurrentsareparametrizedas

(AR)aµ=ZA(1+bAamq)(AI)aµ,

(VR)aµ=ZV(1+bVamq)(VI)aµ,

with

(AI)aµ=Aaµ+acA˜∂µPa,˜∂µ=1

∗TalkgivenbyM.GuagnelliattheInternationalSym-posiumonLatticeFieldTheory,21−27Juli1997,Edin-burgh,Scotlandareknownto1–looporderofperturbationthe-

ory[5,6].Moreover,thenormalizations(ZAand

ZV)andtheimprovementcoefficientscAandbVhavebeendeterminednon–perturbativelyinthe

quenchedapproximationforg0≤1[4,7].Asa

nextstep,wedeterminecV,thuscompletingthe

knowledgeoftheimprovedvectorcurrent.The

computationofotherimprovementcoefficientsis

discussedin[9].

KnowledgeofcVis,forexample,requiredfor

thecomputationofvectormesondecayconstants.

Therelativecontributionofa˜∂νTµνtothesede-

cayconstantscanbe,atg20=1,aslargeas

0.3×cV[8].Althoughtheperturbativeesti-

mate[6],

cV=−0.01225(1)×g20CF+O(g40),CF=4/3,(1)

suggestsaneffectoflessthan1%onthedecay

constants,ourpreliminarynon–perturbativere-

sultsdeterminecVtobemuchlargerinmagni-

tudeforg20≃1.

2.THESTRATEGY

ChiralWardidentitiesrelatecorrelationfunc-

tionsofaxial–vectorandvectorcurrents.Inthe

O(a)improvedtheoryandforzeroquarkmass

theseidentitiescanbewritteninaformwhichis

validuptoerrortermsthatarequadraticina.

SincetheO(a)–improvedaxial–vectorcurrentas

wellasZVandZAareknown,onecanuseapar-

ticularWardidentityinwhichtheonlyunknown

iscV.

OurstartingpointistheWardidentity(inthe

continuum):

󰀂

∂Rdσµ(x)ǫabc󰀂Aaµ(x)Abν(y)Qc󰀃−(2)2

2m󰀂

Rd4xǫabc󰀂Pa(x)Abν(y)Qc󰀃=2i󰀂Vcν(y)Qc󰀃,

wherethespace–timeregionRwithboundary∂R

containsthepointyandQcisasourcelocated

outsideR.

WethenimposeSchr¨odingerFunctionalbound-aryconditions[10],chooseν=kandspecifythe

source,

Qck=a6󰀁

y,z¯ζ(y)γkτc

9󰀂Vak(x)Qak󰀃,(5)

kT(x0)=−1

18󰀁

xǫabc󰀂(AI)a0(x)(AI)bk(y)Qck󰀃,(7)

eq.(4)mayberewritten,fort1

ZV[kV(x0)+acV˜∂0kT(x0)]=

Z2A[kIAA(t2,x0)−kIAA(t1,x0)]+O(a2).(8)

Atzeroquarkmassm,thisequationcanbesolved

forcV.However,duetoapeculiarityoftheFigure1.DependenceofYVonthequarkmass.

quenchedapproximation,i.e.theappearanceof

zero–modesinthequarkpropagator,itisnotal-

wayspossibletosimulatedirectlyatzeroquark

mass[4].Fortheparticularboundaryconditions

andlatticesizeemployed,here,thisphenomenon

isrelevantwhenβ=6/g20≤6.4.Inthisre-

gionwehavetoperformanextrapolationtozero

quarkmass.However,inthecourseofthenumer-

icalsimulationsitturnedoutthatcV,implicitly

definedbyeq.(8)alsoforfinitem,isasteepfunc-

tionofmandcouldnotbereliablyextrapolated

tozeroquarkmasswhenwewerenotabletosim-

ulateatverysmallmasses.Thereasonforthis

strongdependenceisrelatedtothefactthatin

theWardidentity(4)themasstermwasleftout:

asaconsequence,eq.(8)isnotevenvalidinthe

continuumlimit.

Itisthereforenaturaltorepeatthecalculation,

keepingthemassterm.Eq.(4)isthenmodified

byanadditionaltermandhascorrectionsoforder

O(am)insteadofO(m).Wesolvetheresulting

equationformallyforcVanddenotethesolution

atfinitemassbyYV,whichcoincideswithcVas

m→0.Asexpected,thislimitisnowreached

verysmoothly(seefigure1).

Inanon–perturbativecalculation,cVdepends

onthechoicesmadeforthevariouskinemat-

icalparameterssuchasT/Lortheparticular

Schr¨odingerFunctionalbackgroundfield.Differ-

entchoicesleadtoavariationofcVitselfthatis

O(a).Thisisunavoidableandonemustmakea