%0 Journal Article %T Non-perturbative renormalisation and improvement of the local vector current for quenched and unquenched Wilson fermions %A T. Bakeyev %A M. Gockeler %A R. Horsley %A D. Pleiter %A P. E. L. Rakow %A G. Schierholz %A H. Stuben %J Physics %D 2003 %I arXiv %R 10.1016/j.physletb.2003.11.050 %X By considering the local vector current between nucleon states and imposing charge conservation, we determine its renormalisation constant and quark mass improvement coefficient for Symanzik $O(a)$ improved Wilson fermions. The computation is first performed for quenched fermions (and for completeness also with unimproved fermions) and compared against known results. The two-flavour unquenched case is then considered. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0305014v2