Cr. Allton et al., GAUGE-INVARIANT SMEARING AND MATRIX CORRELATORS USING WILSON FERMIONSAT BETA=6.2, Physical review. D. Particles and fields, 47(11), 1993, pp. 5128-5137
We present an investigation of gauge-invariant smearing for Wilson fer
mions in quenched lattice QCD on a 24(3) X 48 lattice at beta = 6.2. W
e demonstrate a smearing algorithm that allows a substantial improveme
nt in the determination of the baryon spectrum obtained using propagat
ors smeared at both source and sink, at only a small computational cos
t. We investigate the matrix of correlators constructed from local and
smeared operators, and are able to expose excited states of both the
mesons and baryons.