The Continuum limit of quark number susceptibilities
Feb, 20029 pages
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- Phys.Rev.D 65 (2002) 094515
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- hep-lat/0202006 [hep-lat]
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- 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
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- fermion: lattice field theory
- gauge field theory: SU(3)
- approximation: quenching
- fermion number: susceptibility
- continuum limit
- mass: screening
- finite temperature
- scattering: heavy ion
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