Simple check of the vacuum structure in full QCD lattice simulations

Abstract

Given the increasing availability of lattice data for (unquenched) QCD with $N_f=2$, it is worth while to check whether the generated vacuum significantly deviates from the quenched one. I discuss a specific attempt to do this on the basis of topological susceptibility data gained at various sea-quark masses, since for this observable detailed predictions are available. The upshot is that either discretization effects in dynamical simulations are still untolerably large or the vacuum structure in 2-flavour QCD substantially deviates from that in the theory with 3 (or 2+1) light quarks.

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures including in total 8 graphs, 2 tables; presented at QCD@Work: International Conference on QCD: Theory and Experiment, Martina Franca, Italy, 16-20 Jun 2001