Latent Heat and Critical Temperature of the Color Deconfining Phase Transition
Dec, 198714 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.Lett. 60 (1988) 1367-1370
Report number:
- CU-TP-396
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Abstract: (APS)
A Monte Carlo study is reported of pure SU(3) lattice gauge theory near the color-deconfining phase transition on lattices of size 163×NT with NT=6, 8, and 10. The critical coupling and latent heat per unit volume are deduced for this phase transition: βc=5.889±0.008, 6.001±0.025, 6.16±0.007, and ΔscrE/Tc4=3.61±0.28, 3.26±0.73, 3.54±1.14 for NT=6, 8, 10, respectively. These errors are statistical only and do not reflect significant systematic uncertainty. For NT=10 we demonstrate that the internal energy can be obtained from Wilson loops larger than the usual 1×1 plaquettes.- GAUGE FIELD THEORY: SU(3)
- LATTICE FIELD THEORY: CRITICAL PHENOMENA
- FIELD THEORY: FINITE TEMPERATURE
- GAUGE FIELD THEORY: WILSON LOOP
- NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS: MONTE CARLO
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