Two Flavour QCD Phase Transition

1996/07/20 by G. Boyd, F. Karsch, Boyd, G. +5
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-lat

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/9607046

LaTeX2e, amstex package. 4 pages, 2 figures. Talk presented at the 10th International Conference on Problems of Quantum Field Theory, Crimea

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Abstract

Results on the phase transition in QCD with two flavours of light staggered fermions from an ongoing simulation are presented. We find the restoration of the chiral SU(2) x SU(2) symmetry, but not of the axial U_A(1) symmetry.

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