A High Statistics Study of Flavour-Singlet Mesons with Staggered Fermions

@article{Gregory2008AHS,
title={A High Statistics Study of Flavour-Singlet Mesons with Staggered Fermions},
author={E. B. Gregory and A. C. Irving and Craig McNeile and Chris M. Richards and for the Star Collaboration},
journal={arXiv: High Energy Physics - Lattice},
year={2008}
}
We present some early results from a high statistics study of the scalar and pseudoscalar singlet sectors of lattice QCD using 2+1 flavours of Asqtad improved staggered fermions. The use of the Asqtad action has allowed us to generate an unprecedented number of configurations at 2 lattice spacings which on completion we hope will give us a significantly improved view of both the scalar and pseudoscalar singlet sectors.
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