Hadron masses and decay constants with Wilson quarks at beta=5.85 and 6.0

We present results of a high statistics calculation of hadron masses and meson decay constants in the quenched approximation to lattice QCD with Wilson quarks at beta=5.85 and 6.0 on 24(3)X54 lattices. We analyze the data paying attention in particular to the systematic errors due to the choice of fitting range and due to the contamination from excited states. We find that the systematic errors for the hadron masses with quarks lighter than the strange quark amount to 1 to 2 times the statistical errors. When the lattice scale is fixed from the rho meson mass, the masses of the Omega(-) baryon and the phi meson at two beta's agree with experiment within about one standard deviation. On the other hand, the central value of the nucleon mass at beta=6.0 (5.85) is larger than its experimental value by about 15% (20%) and that of the Delta mass by about 15% (4%): Even when the systematic errors are included, the baryon masses at beta=6.0 do not agree with experiment. Vector meson decay constants at two values of beta agree well with each other and are consistent with experiment for a wide range of the quark mass, when we use current renormalization constants determined nonperturbatively by numerical simulations. The pion decay constant agrees with experiment albeit with large errors. Results for the masses of excited states of the rho meson and the nucleon are also presented.