Curvature of the pseudocritical line in QCD: Taylor expansion matches analytic continuation

May 8, 2018
12 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.D 98 (2018) 5, 054510
  • Published: Sep 18, 2018
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Abstract: (APS)
We determine the curvature of the pseudocritical line of Nf=2+1 QCD with physical quark masses via Taylor expansion in the quark chemical potentials. We adopt a discretization based on stout improved staggered fermions and the tree level Symanzik gauge action; the location of the pseudocritical temperature is based on chiral symmetry restoration. Simulations are performed on lattices with different temporal extent (Nt=6, 8, 10), leading to a continuum extrapolated curvature κ=0.0145(25), which is in very good agreement with the continuum extrapolation obtained via analytic continuation and the same discretization, κ=0.0135(20). This result eliminates the possible tension emerging when comparing analytic continuation with earlier results obtained via Taylor expansion.
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  • 11 pages, 7 figures
  • 12.38.Aw
  • 11.15.Ha
  • 12.38.Gc
  • 12.38.Mh
  • Lattice field theories, lattice QCD
  • critical phenomena
  • potential: chemical
  • numerical calculations
  • quark: staggered
  • quark: flavor: 3