2009/10/31 by V. G. Bornyakov, R. Horsley, S. M. Morozov +6 · 47 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Condensed matter physics #Deconfinement #Fermion #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Lattice (music) #Materials science #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Phase transition #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quark #hep-lat #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.82.014504
published in Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 82(1) (American Physical Society) · 28 pages, 10 figures; published version (Phys. Rev. D)
arxiv created 2010/07/14 · openalex publication_date 2010/07/16 · arxiv updated 2014/11/20 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The critical temperature and the nature of the QCD finite temperature phase transition are determined for Nf=2 dynamical flavors of nonperturbatively improved Wilson fermions. The calculations are performed on large lattices with temporal extents Nt=12, 10, and 8, and lattice spacings down to a=0.075 fm. We find that the deconfinement and chiral phase transitions take place at the same temperature. Our results are in broad agreement with a second order phase transition in the chiral limit. The critical temperature at the physical quark mass is found to be Tc=174(3)(6) MeV.