asqtad

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noun

A staggered action arising when a gluon with momentum of order π/a is exchanged between quarks.

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Meanings

noun

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  1. natural sciencesA staggered action arising when a gluon with momentum of order π/a is exchanged between quarks.

    The operators are constructed using HYP staggered quarks on the MILC asqtad lattice (N#95;f#61;2#43;1).

    2015, Jangho Kim, Weonjong Lee, Jeonghwan Pak, Sungwoo Park, SWME Collaboration, “Nonperturbative Renormalization in the RI-SMOM Scheme and Gribov Uncertainty in the RI-MOM Scheme for Staggered Bilinears”, in PoS (LATTICE, volume 2015

Origin

Shortened from a-squared tadpole.

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