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We present results of a simulation of QCD on a 4x16^3 lattice with 2 continuum flavors of p4-improved staggered fermion with mass m/T=0.4. Derivatives of the thermodynamic grand potential with respect to quark chemical potential mu_q up to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-05-05 C. R. Allton , S. Ejiri , S. J. Hands , O. Kaczmarek , F. Karsch , E. Laermann , C. Schmidt

We present results from our simulations of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) with four flavors of quarks: u, d, s, and c. These simulations are performed with a one-loop Symanzik improved gauge action, and the highly improved staggered quark…

We present the full results of the Wuppertal-Budapest lattice QCD collaboration on flavor diagonal and non-diagonal quark number susceptibilities with 2+1 staggered quark flavors, in a temperature range between 125 and 400 MeV. The light…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-03 Szabolcs Borsanyi , Zoltan Fodor , Sandor D. Katz , Stefan Krieg , Claudia Ratti , Kalman Szabo

We present N_t=4 lattice results for the equation of state of 2+1 flavour staggered, dynamical QCD at finite temperature and chemical potential. We use the overlap improving multi-parameter reweighting technique to extend the equation of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Csikor , G. I. Egri , Z. Fodor , S. D. Katz , K. K. Szabo , A. I. Toth

We study finite-temperature phase transition and equation of state for two-flavor QCD at $N_t=4$ using an RG-improved gauge action and a meanfield-improved clover quark action. The pressure is computed using the integral method. The O(4)…

We study thermodynamic properties of 2+1 flavor QCD with improved Wilson quarks coupled with the RG improved Iwasaki glue, using the fixed scale approach. We present the results for the equation of state, renormalized Polyakov loop, and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-12-07 T. Umeda , S. Aoki , S. Ejiri , T. Hatsuda , K. Kanaya , Y. Maezawa , H. Ohno

I report on a study of finite temperature QCD by the CP-PACS Collaboration toward a precise determination of the equation of state with dynamical u,d quarks. Based on a systematic simulation using improved Wilson-type quarks on lattices…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Kazuyuki Kanaya , CP-PACS Collaboration

We have calculated the pressure and energy density in four-flavour QCD using improved fermion and gauge actions. We observe a strong reduction of finite cut-off effects in the high temperature regime, similar to what has been noted before…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Engels , R. Joswig , F. Karsch , E. Laermann , M. Lütgemeier , B. Petersson

We extend our work on QCD thermodynamics with 2+1 quark flavors at nonzero chemical potential to finer lattices with $N_t=6$. We study the equation of state and other thermodynamic quantities, such as quark number densities and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-20 C. DeTar , L. Levkova , Steven Gottlieb , U. M. Heller , J. E. Hetrick , R. Sugar , D. Toussaint

In the last couple of years, there has been big progress in finite temperature QCD on the lattice. Large-scale dynamical simulations of 2+1 flavor QCD with various improved staggered quark actions have been started to produce results for…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-03-17 Kazuyuki Kanaya

We study the density of states method as well as reweighting to explore the low temperature phase diagram of QCD at finite baryon chemical potential. We use four flavors of staggered quarks, a tree-level Symanzik improved gauge action and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-10-24 G. Endrodi , Z. Fodor , S. D. Katz , D. Sexty , K. K. Szabo , Cs. Torok

We calculate the two flavor equation of state for QCD on lattices with lattice spacing a=(6T)^{-1} and find that cutoff effects are substantially reduced compared to an earlier study using a=(4T)^{-1}. However, it is likely that significant…

We determine the equation of state of QCD for nonzero chemical potentials via a Taylor expansion of the pressure. The results are obtained for N_f=2+1 flavors of quarks with physical masses, on various lattice spacings. We present results…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-04 Sz. Borsanyi , G. Endrodi , Z. Fodor , S. D. Katz , S. Krieg , C. Ratti , K. K. Szabo

We study the effects of the addition of the charm quark on the QCD equation of state at zero and nonzero chemical potential on lattices with $N_t=6$. Our ensembles are quenched with respect to charm and the charm quark is a valence…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-05 L. Levkova

The QCD thermodynamics on the lattice provides fundamental theoretical grounds to analyze the various experimental data in relativistic heavy ion collisions. So far, most of the numerical simulations on the lattice have been performed by…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Ejiri , T. Hatsuda , N. Ishii , Y. Maezawa , N. Ukita , S. Aoki , K. Kanaya

We present results from a calculation of the QCD equation of state with two light (up, down) and one heavier (strange) quark mass performed on lattices with three different values of the lattice cut-off. We show that also on the finest…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Frithjof Karsch

We report on our result for the equation of state (EOS) with a Symanzik improved gauge action and the asqtad improved staggered fermion action at $N_t=4$ and 6. In our dynamical simulations with 2+1 flavors we use the inexact R algorithm…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-15 C. Bernard , T. Burch , C. DeTar , Steven Gottlieb , L. Levkova , U. M. Heller , J. E. Hetrick , D. B. Renner , D. Toussaint , R. Sugar

We study the (2+1)-flavor QCD at nonzero temperatures using nonperturbatively improved Wilson quarks of the physical masses by the fixed scale approach. We perform physical point simulations at finite temperatures with the coupling…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-11-17 T. Umeda , S. Ejiri , R. Iwami , K. Kanaya

We report on investigations of the chiral and deconfinement aspects of the finite temperature transition in 2+1 flavor QCD using the Highly Improved Staggered Quark (HISQ) action on lattices with temporal extent $N_\tau=6$ and $N_\tau=8$.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-20 Alexei Bazavov , Peter Petreczky

We study the phase structure of QCD at finite temperatures with two flavors of dynamical quarks on a lattice with the size $N_s^3 \times N_t=16^3 \times 4$, using a renormalization group improved gauge action and a clover improved Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Ukita , S. Ejiri , T. Hatsuda , N. Ishii , Y. Maezawa , S. Aoki , K. Kanaya