New actions for minimally doubled fermions and their counterterms

Abstract

Minimally doubled fermions provide a cheap and convenient way of simulating quarks which preserve chiral symmetry. It has been established that two actions of this kind (known as Borici-Creutz and Karsten-Wilczek) require the tuning of three counterterms in order to be properly renormalized. Here we construct some more general minimally doubled actions and investigate the properties of their counterterms.

7 pages, 1 figure, talk presented at the 31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 29 - August 3, 2013, Mainz, Germany