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Equation of state in (2+1) flavor QCD at high temperatures

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2018-12-03 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We calculate the Equation of State at high temperatures in (2+1) flavor QCD using the highly improved staggered quark (HISQ) action. We study the lattice spacing dependence of the pressure at high temperatures using lattices with temporal extent Nτ=6, 8, 10N_{\tau}=6,~8,~10 and 1212 and perform continuum extrapolations. We also give a continuum estimate for the Equation of State up to temperatures T=2T=2\,GeV, which are then compared with results of the weak-coupling calculations. We find reasonable agreement with the HTL calculation at the highest temperatures and a tension with the EQCD calculation of a few percent, with the lattice results in the middle between both.

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@article{arxiv.1811.12902,
  title  = {Equation of state in (2+1) flavor QCD at high temperatures},
  author = {Johannes Heinrich Weber and Alexei Bazavov and Peter Petreczky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.12902},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Parallel talk at the XIIIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum conference. 12 pages, 8 figures