Numerical properties of staggered quarks with a taste-dependent mass term

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  De Forcrand, Philippe ^a,b,c,d   Kurkela, Aleksi ^e   Panero, Marco ^c,f  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Lattice gauge field theories; Lattice quantum field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860656155     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2012)142     Document Type: Article

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