Anisotropic lattice actions for heavy quark

TL;DR

This paper investigates anisotropic lattice fermion actions for heavy quarks, using one-loop perturbative calculations to reduce systematic errors in heavy-light systems by optimizing lattice parameters.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of anisotropic lattice actions and demonstrates how to eliminate large discretization errors through one-loop calculations for heavy quark systems.

Findings

Small temporal lattice spacing suppresses discretization errors for heavy quarks.

Large discretization errors can be mitigated by appropriate action choices.

One-loop calculations show elimination of large systematic errors in anisotropic lattices.

Abstract

The anisotropic lattice fermion actions are investigated with the one-loop perturbative calculations aiming at constructing a formulation for heavy quark with controlled systematic uncertainties. For the heavy-light systems at rest the anisotropic lattice with small temporal lattice spacing $a_t$ suppresses the discretization error by a power of $a_t m_Q$ for a heavy quark of mass $m_Q$. We discuss the issue of large discretization errors, which scales as $a_s m_Q$ with $a_s$ the spatial lattice spacing. By performing one-loop calculations of the speed-of-light renormalization for several possible lattice actions in the limit of $a_t\to 0$, we show that one can eliminate the large systematic error on the anisotropic lattice.