Renormalization of Anisotropy and Glueball Masses on Tadpole Improved Lattice Gauge Action

The Numerical calculations for tadpole-improved U(1) lattice gauge theory in three-dimensions on anisotropic lattices have been performed using standard path integral Monte Carlo techniques. Using average plaquette tadpole renormalization scheme, simulations were done with temporal lattice spacings much smaller than the spatial ones and results were obtained for the string tension, the renormalized anisotropy and scalar glueball masses. We find, by comparing the ‘regular’ and ‘sideways’ potentials, that tadpole improvement results in very little renormalization of the bare anisotropy and reduces the discretization errors in the static quark potential and in the glueball masses. Typeset using REVTEX e-mail :[email protected] e-mail :[email protected]