Aug 4 – 7, 2020
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Thermal transition in QCD with Nf=2+1 flavours of Wilson quark

Aug 4, 2020, 2:00 PM
20m
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Gert Aarts (Swansea University)

Description

The thermal transition in QCD has been studied in detail using the staggered-quark formulation. Here we report on progress using Nf=2+1 flavours of Wilson fermions, employing anisotropic, fixed-scale lattice simulations. Observables are compared for two values of the pion mass, focusing on chiral properties: the chiral condensate and its susceptibility, quark number susceptibilities, and the onset of parity doubling in the light and strange baryonic sector. For the pseudo-critical temperature obtained from the chiral condensate, we combine our results with those from twisted-mass fermions and extrapolate to the physical point - without a continuum extrapolation -, yielding T_pc=159(6) MeV.

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Gert Aarts (Swansea University)

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