The chiral and deconfinement aspects of the QCD transition

2011/11/30 by A. Bazavov, T. Bhattacharya, M. Cheng +18 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-lat #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.85.054503

published as Phys. Rev. D85 (2012) 054503 · Published version, typos corrected, minor revisions in section I and VII, conclusions unchanged

arxiv created 2012/03/08 · arxiv updated 2015/06/03

Abstract

We present results on the chiral and deconfinement properties of the QCD transition at finite temperature. Calculations are performed with 2+1 flavors of quarks using the p4, asqtad and HISQ/tree actions. Lattices with temporal extent N_tau=6, 8 and 12 are used to understand and control discretization errors and to reliably extrapolate estimates obtained at finite lattice spacings to the continuum limit. The chiral transition temperature is defined in terms of the phase transition in a theory with two massless flavors and analyzed using O(N) scaling fits to the chiral condensate and susceptibility. We find consistent estimates from the HISQ/tree and asqtad actions and our main result is T_c=154 +/- 9 MeV.

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