# DESY 98–153 FU-HEP/98–4 HUB–EP–98/61 TPR-98-30 September 1998 Mass Spectrum and Decay Constants in the Continuum LimitTalk given by D. Pleiter at Lat98, Boulder, U.S.A.

## 1 INTRODUCTION

It has become standard to reduce, or indeed eliminate completely, the $`O(a)`$ cut-off effects of Wilson fermions by adding the local Sheikholeslami-Wohlert counterterm. The QCDSF collaboration has simulated quenched QCD with improved fermions at three different values of the gauge coupling $`\beta =6.0`$, $`6.2`$, and $`6.4`$, which covers the range of lattice spacings $`a^123.5`$ GeV. The simulations have been done on lattices of size $`16^3\times 32`$ ($`\beta =6.0`$), $`24^3\times 48`$ ($`\beta =6.0`$, $`6.2`$), $`32^3\times 64`$ ($`\beta =6.2`$), and $`32^3\times 48`$ ($`\beta =6.4`$). The spatial size of the lattices varies between $`1.72.5`$ fm. We have generated $`O(2001000)`$, $`O(300)`$, $`O(100)`$ gauge field configurations at $`\beta =6.0`$, $`6.2`$ and $`6.4`$, respectively. They have been evaluated for 3-8 different values of the hopping parameter $`\kappa `$ with $`m_\pi /m_\rho `$ approximately in the range of $`0.40.9`$.<sup>1</sup><sup>1</sup>1For more simulation details, see . The coefficient of the Sheikholeslami-Wohlert counterterm, $`c_{SW}(g^2)`$, was taken from . We are currently improving both our statistics and number of $`\kappa `$ values at $`\beta =6.4`$. Our results presented here should therefore be regarded as preliminary.

## 2 CHIRAL EXTRAPOLATION

In order to extrapolate the masses and decay constants to the chiral limit, we use the phenomenological ansatz

$$m_X^2=b_0+b_2m_\pi ^2+b_3m_\pi ^3.$$
(1)   
Fits with only three parameters using this ansatz give smaller $`\chi ^2/dof`$ than the ansatz based on predictions of chiral perturbation theory, e.g. for $`m_\rho `$ and $`m_N`$ . Fig. 1 shows $`m_\rho ^2`$ and $`m_N^2`$ as a function of $`m_\pi ^2`$ at $`\beta =6.2`$. We have used a two parameter fit (keeping $`b_3=0`$ fixed) at $`\beta =6.4`$, since we currently have results for three $`\kappa `$ values only.

Searching for quenched chiral logarithms predicted by the chiral perturbation theory we looked at the logarithm of the ratio $`m_\pi ^2/m_q`$ as function of the quark mass $`m_q`$ . Since the standard method for determination of $`\kappa _c`$ depends on the presence of these singularities, we use the quark masses determined by the Ward identity method. Using the ansatz 

$`\mathrm{ln}{\displaystyle \frac{(am_\pi )^2}{am_q}}`$ $`=`$ $`c_0{\displaystyle \frac{\delta }{1+\delta }}\mathrm{ln}(am_q)+`$   
$`c_1am_q+c_2(am_q)^2`$   
we find $`\delta 0.10.2`$ for $`\beta =6.0`$ and $`6.2`$. Our data and the fits are plotted in fig. 2.

## 3 HADRON MASSES

In fig. 3 we plot our results for the dimensionless mass ratio $`m_N/m_\rho `$ versus $`(m_\pi /m_\rho )^2`$. Within errors there are no visible cut-off effects. For $`\beta =6.0`$ and $`6.2`$ we find the ratio $`m_N/m_\rho `$ in the chiral limit to be in agreement with the experimental value.

We use a linear fit in $`a^2`$ in order to extrapolate our results for the hadron masses to the continuum limit. We use the string tension $`K`$, which has cut-off errors of $`O(a^2)`$, to fix the scale and $`\sqrt{K}=427\text{MeV}`$ to express the experimental values in terms of $`\sqrt{K}`$. As shown in fig. 4 our preliminary data agrees with the experimental values. For the $`a_0`$ and $`b_1`$ mesons we find large $`O(a^2)`$ effects.

## 4 QUARK MASSES AND DECAY CONSTANTS

We define the bare quark mass using the Ward identity method. While the renormalization constant $`Z_A`$ and the coefficient $`c_A`$ are known non-perturbatively , we use tadpole improved values for $`Z_P^{\overline{MS}}(a\mu )`$, $`b_A`$ and $`b_P`$ . To determine $`\widehat{m}_s`$ we proceed as described in  and use the physical pion and kaon masses as input.

To calculate the decay constants $`f_\pi `$ and $`1/f_\rho `$ we use the improved renormalized operators $`𝒜_\mu =(1+b_Aam)Z_A(A_\mu +c_Aa_\mu P)`$ and $`𝒱_\mu =(1+b_Vam)Z_V(V_\mu +ic_Va_\lambda T_{\mu \lambda })`$. $`Z_V`$, $`b_V`$ and $`c_V`$ are known non-perturbatively . While $`f_\pi `$ scales very well, this is less obvious for $`1/f_\rho `$. For other matrix elements using improved axial and vector currents see .

## ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The numerical calculations were performed on the Ape $`QH2`$ at DESY-Zeuthen and the Cray $`T3D`$/$`T3E`$ at ZIB, Berlin.