The Schrodinger functional running coupling with staggered fermions Original Research Article

We discuss the Schrodinger functional in lattice QCD with staggered fermions including its order 0(a) boundary counterterms. We relate it, in the classical continuum limit, to the Schrödinger functional as obtained in the same limit with Wilson fermions. We compute the strong coupling constant defined via the Schrodinger functional with staggered fermions at one loop and show that it agrees with the continuum running coupling constant in the Schrodinger functional formalism.