Chiral phase transition of NfN_f=2+1 QCD with the HISQ action

Nov 30, 2013
7 pages
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  • PoS LATTICE2013 (2014) 157
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  • Published: 2014
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present studies of universal properties of the chiral phase transition in NfN_f=2+1 QCD based on the simulations using Highly Improved Staggered fermions on lattices with temporal extent NτN_\tau=6. We analyze the quark mass and volume dependence of the chiral condensates and chiral susceptibilities in QCD with two degenerate light quarks and a strange quark. The strange quark mass is chosen to be fixed to its physical value (msphym^{phy}_s) and five values of light quark masses (mlm_l) that are varied in the interval 1/20ml/msphy\gtrsim m_l/m^{phy}_s \gtrsim1/80. Here various quark masses correspond to pseudo Goldstone pion masses ranging from about 160 MeV to about 80 MeV. The O(N) scaling of chiral observables and the influence of universal scaling on physical observables in the region of physical quark mass values are also discussed.
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  • 7 pages, talk presented at the 31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2013), 29 July - 3 August 2013, Mainz, Germany
  • quark: mass dependence
  • critical phenomena: chiral
  • susceptibility: chiral
  • condensation: chiral
  • pi: Goldstone particle
  • quark: staggered
  • quark: flavor: 3
  • scaling: O(N)
  • quantum chromodynamics: lattice
  • numerical calculations