2010

Probing the chiral regime of Nf=2 QCD with mixed actions

Bernardoni, Fabio, Garron, Nicolas, Hernandez, Pilar et al.

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We report on our first experiences with a mixed action setup with overlap valence quarks and non-perturbatively O(a) improved Wilson sea quarks.

  • For the latter we employ CLS Nf=2 configurations with light sea quark masses at small lattice spacings.
  • Exact chiral symmetry allows to consider very light valence quarks and explore the matching to (partially quenched) Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) in a mixed epsilon/p-regime.
  • We compute the topological susceptibility and the low-lying spectrum of the massless Neuberger-Dirac operator for three values of the sea quark mass, and compare the sea quark mass dependence to NLO ChPT in the mixed regime.

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