Investigation of the UA(1)U_A(1) in high temperature QCD on the lattice

Nov 15, 2013
7 pages
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  • PoS LATTICE2013 (2014) 164
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  • Published: 2014
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Abstract: (arXiv)
In this project we study the effect of the UA(1)U_A(1) anomaly for (2+1)-flavour QCD at high temperature. We apply the overlap operator as a tool to probe the topological properties of gauge field configurations which have been generated within the Highly Improved Staggered Quark (HISQ) discretization scheme on lattices of size 323×832^3\times 8 with ml/ms=1/20m_l/m_s=1/20, commonly used for the study of QCD thermodynamics. Although we have at present, only results for one value of the quark masses and thus cannot monitor the change of the eigenvalue distributions with the light quark mass, the distribution of the low-lying eigenvalues of the overlap operator suggests that the UA(1)U_A(1) is not restored effectively even at 1.5 times the pseudo critical temperature. The corresponding low-lying eigenmodes show localization properties.
Note:
  • Presented at the 31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2013), 29 July - 3 August 2013, Mainz, Germany
  • temperature: high
  • operator: overlap
  • quantum chromodynamics: thermodynamics
  • quark: staggered
  • quark: flavor: 3
  • quantum chromodynamics: lattice
  • anomaly: U(1)
  • anomaly: axial
  • critical phenomena
  • gauge field theory: SU(3)