Chiral symmetry and O(a) improvement in lattice QCD

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 478, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 365-397

  Lüscher, Martin ^a   Sint, Stefan ^b   Sommer, Rainer ^c   Weisz, Peter ^b  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chiral symmetry; Elementary particle physics; Lattice gauge theory; Numerical simulations; Quantumchromodynamics (QCD); Symanzik improvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030604999     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(96)00378-1     Document Type: Article

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