Universal scaling properties of QCD close to the chiral limit

Oct 29, 2020
10 pages
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  • Acta Phys.Polon.Supp. 14 (2021) 291
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present a lattice QCD based determination of the chiral phase transition temperature in QCD with two massless (up and down) and one strange quark having its physical mass. We propose and calculate two novel estimators for the chiral transition temperature for several values of the light quark masses, corresponding to Goldstone pion masses in the range of 58 MeVmπ163 MeV58~{\rm MeV}\lesssim m_\pi\lesssim 163~{\rm MeV}. The chiral phase transition temperature is determined by extrapolating to vanishing pion mass using universal scaling relations. After thermodynamic, continuum and chiral extrapolations we find the chiral phase transition temperature Tc0=1326+3T_c^0=132^{+3}_{-6} MeV. We also show some preliminary calculations that use the conventional estimator for the pseudo-critical temperature and compare with the new estimators for Tc0T_c^0. Furthermore, we show results for the ratio of the chiral order parameter and its susceptibility and argue that this ratio can be used to differentiate between O(N)O(N) and Z2Z_2 universality classes in a non-parametric manner.
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  • 10 pages, 6 figures, contribution to the proceeding of workshop on Criticality in QCD and the Hadron Resonance Gas; 29-31 July 2020, Wroclaw, Poland
  • critical phenomena: chiral
  • critical phenomena: temperature
  • pi: mass
  • transition: chiral
  • temperature: transition
  • quark: mass
  • estimator
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • scaling
  • lattice field theory