@article{oai:tsukuba.repo.nii.ac.jp:00009385, author = {Yamada, N. and Aoki, S. and Fukugita, M. and Hashimoto, S. and Ishikawa, K-I. and Ishizuka, N. and Iwasaki, Y. and 岩崎, 洋一 and Kanaya, K. and Kaneko, T. and Kuramashi, Y. and Okawa, M. and Taniguchi, Y. and Tsutsui, N. and Ukawa, A. and 宇川, 彰 and Yoshie, T.}, issue = {5}, journal = {Physical review D}, month = {Mar}, note = {We perform a nonperturbative determination of the O(a)-improvement coefficient cSW for the Wilson quark action in three-flavor QCD with the plaquette gauge action. Numerical simulations are carried out in a range of beta=12.0-5.2 on a single lattice size of 8^3×16 employing the Schrodinger functional setup of lattice QCD. As our main result, we obtain an interpolation formula for cSW and the critical hopping parameter Kc as a function of the bare coupling. This enables us to remove the O(a) scaling violation from physical observables in future numerical simulation in the wide range of beta. Our analysis with a perturbatively modified improvement condition for cSW suggests that finite volume effects in cSW are not large on the 83×16 lattice. We investigate Nf dependence of cSW by additional simulations for Nf=4, 2, and 0 at beta=9.6. As a preparatory step for this study, we also determine cSW in two-flavor QCD at beta=5.2. At this beta, several groups have carried out large-scale calculations of the hadron spectrum, while no systematic determination of cSW has been performed.}, title = {Nonperturbative O(a) improvement of Wilson quark action in three-flavor QCD with plaquette gauge action}, volume = {71}, year = {2005} }