# A Comparison of Clover and Wilson Spectroscopy in the Presence of Dynamical Quarks

## TL;DR

This paper compares Clover and Wilson fermion spectroscopy results for light hadrons using dynamical quarks, demonstrating the effectiveness of higher order chiral perturbation theory for extrapolations.

## Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of Clover and Wilson fermions in light hadron spectroscopy with dynamical quarks, highlighting the success of higher order chiral fits.

## Key findings

- Clover and Wilson fermions show similar spectral behavior.
- Higher order chiral perturbation theory improves extrapolation accuracy.
- Results support the use of Clover fermions in dynamical simulations.

## Abstract

We present preliminary results of light hadron spectroscopy using valence, tadpole-improved, Clover fermions on an ensemble of gauge configurations generated with 2 flavors of staggered fermions at a beta of 5.6. We compare the slope and intercept of the curve M_V vs. M_PS^2 for Clover and Wilson fermions. We show that a higher order chiral perturbation theory ansatz works very well for chiral extrapolations.