The running of the Schrödinger functional coupling from four‐flavour lattice QCD with staggered quarks

Abstract

We present preliminary results for the running coupling in the Schrödinger functional scheme in QCD with four flavours. A single‐component staggered quark field is used on lattices of size (L/a)3×(L/a±1). This provides us with 2 different regularisations of the same renormalized coupling, and thus some control over the size of lattice artefacts. These are found to be comparatively large, calling for a more refined analysis, which still remains to be done.