Improvement and Taste Symmetry Breaking for Staggered Quarks

Abstract

We compare several improved actions for staggered quarks. We study the effect of improvement on the taste changing interactions by calculating the splitting in the pion spectrum. We investigate the effect of the improvement on some topological properties.

arXiv comment3 pages, 3 figures, Lattice 2003 proceedings

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