https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2004-01863-8
theoretical physics
An alternate smearing method for Wilson loops in lattice QCD
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Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Nihon University, 1-8-14 Kanda-Surugadai, 1018308, Tokyo, Japan
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TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver BC, Canada V6T 2A3
A gauge field link smearing method developed for calculations with staggered fermions, namely the use of unitarized fat7 links, is applied to mesonic and baryonic Wilson loop calculations. This method is found to be very effective for reducing statistical fluctuations for large Wilson loops. Examination of chromo-electric field distributions shows that self-interactions of the static sources are reduced when unitarized fat7 smearing is used but long-distance inter-quark effects are unchanged.
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