SCRI Results With the Tadpole-Improved Clover Action

Abstract

We compare light hadron spectroscopy using the Wilson and Clover fermionic actions. We show that a Clover coefficient chosen using tadpole-improved tree-level perturbation theory effectively eliminates the O(a) discretization errors present in the Wilson action. We find that discretization errors in light spectroscopy for both the Wilson and Clover actions are characterized by an energy scale mu of about 200-300 MeV, indicating that these errors can be reduced to the 5% level by using the Clover action at an inverse lattice spacing of about 1.3 GeV.

Comments: Talk presented at the International Workshop on Lattice QCD On Parallel Computers, University of Tsukuba, March 10-15 1997. 9 LaTex pages plus 6 postscript figures, uses espcrc2.sty