The Continuum limit of quark number susceptibilities

Feb, 2002
9 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 65 (2002) 094515
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Report number:
  • TIFR-TH-02-05

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Abstract:
We report the continuum limit of quark number susceptibilities in quenched QCD. Deviations from ideal gas behaviour at temperature T increase as the lattice spacing is decreased from T/4 to T/6, but a further decrease seems to have very little effect. The measured susceptibilities are 20% lower than the ideal gas values, and also 10% below the hard thermal loop (HTL) results. The off-diagonal susceptibility is several orders of magnitude smaller than the HTL results. We verify a strong correlation between the lowest screening mass and the susceptibility. We also show that the quark number susceptibilities give a reasonable account of the Wroblewski parameter, which measures the strangeness yield in a heavy-ion collision.
  • 11.15.Ha
  • 12.38.Mh
  • fermion: lattice field theory
  • gauge field theory: SU(3)
  • approximation: quenching
  • fermion number: susceptibility
  • continuum limit
  • mass: screening
  • finite temperature
  • scattering: heavy ion