asqtad

English

Alternative forms

• ASQTAD

Etymology

Shortened from a-squared tadpole.

Noun

asqtad

1. (physics) A staggered action arising when a gluon with momentum of order π/a is exchanged between quarks.
   • 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^[1], volume 2015:

     The operators are constructed using HYP staggered quarks on the MILC asqtad lattice ($N_{f}=2+1$).