Non-perturbative O(a) improvement of the vector current
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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)ǫabcAaµ(x)Abν(y)Qc−(2)2
2m
Rd4xǫabcPa(x)Abν(y)Qc=2iVcν(y)Qc,
wherethespace–timeregionRwithboundary∂R
containsthepointyandQcisasourcelocated
outsideR.
WethenimposeSchr¨odingerFunctionalbound-aryconditions[10],chooseν=kandspecifythe
source,
Qck=a6
y,z¯ζ(y)γkτc
9Vak(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