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The Spatial String Tension and Dimensional Reduction in QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We calculate the spatial string tension in (2+1) flavor QCD with physical strange quark mass and almost physical light quark masses using lattices with temporal extent N_tau=4,6 and 8. We compare our results on the spatial string tension with predictions of dimensionally reduced QCD. This suggests that also in the presence of light dynamical quarks dimensional reduction works well down to temperatures 1.5T_c.

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@article{arxiv.0806.3264,
  title  = {The Spatial String Tension and Dimensional Reduction in QCD},
  author = {M. Cheng and S. Datta and J. van der Heide and K. Huebner and F. Karsch and O. Kaczmarek and E. Laermann and J. Liddle and R. D. Mawhinney and C. Miao and P. Petreczky and K. Petrov and C. Schmidt and W. Soeldner and T. Umeda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.3264},
  year   = {2008}
}

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8 pages ReVTeX, 4 figures

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