QCD phase transition at finite temperature?
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (Germany)
- 2. Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Juelich (Germany)
- 3. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Eoetvoes University, Budapest (Hungary)
Description
We investigate the finite temperature phase transition at μ=0 in 6-flavour QCD. It is believed that in QCD a transition between the deconfined phase at high temperature and the hadronic phase at low temperature exits. The type of the transition between these two states of matter depends on the quark masses. For physical quark masses it has been shown that the transition is an analytic crossover and not a true phase transition. However at lower quark masses it was suggested that a region exists where a first order phase transition occurs. These region should be separated from the crossover region by a line of second order phase transition. As a first approach for finding this line of second order phase transition we present lattice calculations with six degenerate staggered quark fields and strong stout smearing. We observe evidence which might suggest a phase transition at low quark masses in this scenario.
Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
- Journal Issue
- Goettingen 2012 issue
- Series
- Also available as printed version: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft v. 47(1)
- Journal Page Range
- [1 p.]
- ISSN
- 0420-0195
- CODEN
- VDPEAZ
Conference
- Title
- 2012 DPG Spring meeting with the divisions of gravitation and theory of relativity, particle physics, theoretical and mathematical fundamentals of the physics
- Original Conference Title
- DPG-Fruehjahrstagung 2012 der Fachverbaende Gravitation und Relativitaetstheorie, Teilchenphysik, Theoretische und Mathematische Grundlagen der Physik
- Dates
- 27 Feb - 2 Mar 2012
- Place
- Goettingen (Germany)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 44035519
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- FLAVOR MODEL; LATTICE FIELD THEORY; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; QUARKS; REST MASS; SPINOR FIELDS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPOSITE MODELS; CONSTRUCTIVE FIELD THEORY; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; MASS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUARK MODEL
Optional Information
- Notes
- Session: T 23.2 Do 17:00; No further information available