https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817511023
High-order perturbative expansions in massless gauge theories with NSPT
1
Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
2
Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra, Università di Parma and INFN, Gruppo Collegato di Parma I-43100 Parma, Italy
* e-mail: g.filaci@ed.ac.uk
Published online: 26 March 2018
We investigate the possibility of using numerical stochastic perturbation theory (NSPT) to probe high orders in the perturbative expansion of lattice gauge theories with massless Wilson fermions. Twisted boundary conditions are used to regularise the gauge zero-mode; the extension of these boundary conditions to include fermions in the fundamental representation requires to introduce a smell degree of freedom. Moreover, the mass of Wilson fermions is affected by an additive renormalisation: we study how to determine the mass counterterms consistently in finite volume. The knowledge of the critical masses will enable high-order perturbative computations in massless QCD, e.g. (as a first application) for the plaquette.
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