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Fluctuations and correlations in high temperature QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2015-12-23 v1

Abstract

We calculate second- and fourth-order cumulants of conserved charges in a temperature range stretching from the QCD transition region towards the realm of (resummed) perturbation theory. We perform lattice simulations with staggered quarks; the continuum extrapolation is based on Nt=1024N_t=10\dots24 in the crossover-region and Nt=816N_t=8\dots16 at higher temperatures. We find that the Hadron Resonance Gas model predictions describe the lattice data rather well in the confined phase. At high temperatures (above \sim250 MeV) we find agreement with the three-loop Hard Thermal Loop results.

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@article{arxiv.1507.04627,
  title  = {Fluctuations and correlations in high temperature QCD},
  author = {R. Bellwied and S. Borsanyi and Z. Fodor and S. D. Katz and A. Pasztor and C. Ratti and K. K. Szabo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.04627},
  year   = {2015}
}

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18 pages revtex, 13 figures

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