Methods for Pseudoscalar Flavour-Singlet Mesons with Staggered Fermions

Abstract

We present the first 2+1 flavour lattice QCD calculations of pseudoscalar flavour-singlet propagators using improved staggered fermions. We explore the relevant techniques and discuss prospects for the larger scale studies now in progress. The disconnected correlator is shown to have a highly non-Gaussian distribution and reliable estimates of the errors require care.

Comments: 44 pages,24 Figures