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QCD THERMODYNAMICS WITH NF=2+1 NEAR THE CONTINUUM LIMIT AT REALISTIC QUARK MASSES

Description

We report on our study of QCD thermodynamics with 2 + 1 flavors of dynamical quarks. In this proceeding we present several thermodynamic quantities and our recent calculation of the critical temperature. In order to investigate the thermodynamic properties of QCD near the continuum limit we adopt improved staggered (p4) quarks coupled with tree-level Symanzik improved glue on Nt = 4 and 6 lattices. The simulations are performed with a physical value of the strange quark mass and light quark masses which are in the range of mq/ms = 0.05 - 0.4. The lightest quark mass corresponds to a pion mass of about 150 MeV

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
9 p.
Report number
BNL--77104-2006-CP

Conference

Title
24. International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2006)
Dates
23-28 Jul 2006
Place
Tucson, AZ (United States)

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
YN0100000; AC02-98CH10886
Funding organization
DOE/SC (United States)