Stout Smearing for Twisted Mass Fermions

Abstract

The effect of Stout smearing is investigated in numerical simulations with twisted mass Wilson quarks. The phase transition near zero quark mass is studied on 12^3x24, 16^3x32 and 24^3x48 lattices at lattice spacings a = 0.1 - 0.125 fm.

7 pages, 5 figures, Poster presented at the XXV International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 30 - August 4 2007, Regensburg, Germany