Curvature of the chiral pseudocritical line in QCD: Continuum extrapolated results

Jul 13, 2015
11 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 92 (2015) 5, 054503
  • Published: Sep 10, 2015
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Report number:
  • IFUP-TH-2015-07

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Abstract: (APS)
We determine the curvature of the pseudocritical line of strong interactions by means of numerical simulations at imaginary chemical potentials. We consider Nf=2+1 stout improved staggered fermions with physical quark masses and the tree level Symanzik gauge action, and explore four different sets of lattice spacings, corresponding to Nt=6,8,10,12, in order to extrapolate results to the continuum limit. Our final estimate is κ=0.0135(20).
Note:
  • 11 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables. Version to appear in Physical Review D
  • 11.15.Ha
  • 12.38.Aw
  • 12.38.Gc
  • 12.38.Mh
  • potential: chemical
  • quark: staggered
  • quark: flavor: 3
  • quantum chromodynamics: critical phenomena
  • curvature: chiral
  • quark: mass