UA_A(1) breaking at finite temperature from the Dirac spectrum with the dynamical HISQ action

Nov, 2012

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We investigate UA(1)U_A(1) breaking above TcT_c in terms of the Dirac spectrum on configurations with (2+1)-flavors, using the HISQ action. The strange quark mass is at its physical value. We use several light quark masses corresponding to the Goldstone pion masses in the range of about 115 -- 230 MeV on lattices of size 323×^3 \times8 and 483×^3 \times8. We calculate the 100 lowest-lying Dirac eigenvalues at temperatures below and above TcT_c. We investigate the volume dependence of the Dirac eigenvalue density to determine whether there is a gap around zero, which can appear if UA(1)U_A(1) symmetry is restored in the chiral symmetric phase. We also investigate the quark mass dependence of the Dirac eigenvalue density at zero and check whether there is a linear behavior that would signal the UA(1)U_A(1) breaking above TcT_c.
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  • 7 pages, 4 figures, talk presented at The 30th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, June 24-29, 2012, Cairns, Australia
  • quark: mass dependence
  • gap
  • lattice field theory
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • numerical calculations: Monte Carlo
  • symmetry: axial
  • symmetry breaking
  • spectrum
  • critical phenomena