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Improved Reweighting for QCD Topology at High Temperature

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2020-02-05 v1

Abstract

In a previous paper \cite{Jahn:2018dke} we presented a methodology for computing the topological susceptibility of QCD at temperatures where it is small and standard methods fail. Here we improve on this methodology by removing two barriers to the reweighting method's moving between topological sectors. We present high-statistics, continuum-extrapolated results for the susceptibility of pure-glue QCD up to 7Tc7 T_c. We show that the susceptibility varies with temperature as T6.7±0.3T^{-6.7\pm 0.3} between T=2.5TcT=2.5 T_c and T=7TcT=7 T_c, in good agreement with expectations based on the dilute instanton gas approximation.

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@article{arxiv.2002.01153,
  title  = {Improved Reweighting for QCD Topology at High Temperature},
  author = {P. Thomas Jahn and Guy D. Moore and Daniel Robaina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.01153},
  year   = {2020}
}

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12 pages, two column, 9 figures

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