The upper right corner of the Columbia plot with staggered fermions
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2021-12-09 v1
Abstract
QCD with heavy dynamical quarks exhibits a first order thermal transition which is driven by the spontaneous breaking of the global center symmetry. Decreasing the quark masses weakens the transition until the corresponding latent heat vanishes at the critical mass. We explore the heavy mass region with three flavors of staggered quarks and analyze the Polyakov loop and its moments in a finite volume scaling study. We calculate the heavy critical mass in the three flavor theory in the infinite volume limit for .
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@article{arxiv.2112.04192,
title = {The upper right corner of the Columbia plot with staggered fermions},
author = {Ruben Kara and Szabolcs Borsanyi and Zoltan Fodor and Jana N. Guenther and Paolo Parotto and Attila Pasztor and Denes Sexty},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.04192},
year = {2021}
}
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8 pages, presentation at the 38th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 26th-30th July 2021, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA