Published August 15, 1988 | Version v1
Journal article

Finite-temperature transition for QCD with heavy quarks

  • 1. Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545

Description

We use the hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm (HMCA) to simulate QCD with four flavors of staggered dynamical fermions on 63 x 4 and 83 x 4 lattices. We find evidence that the first-order finite-temperature transition found at small quark masses persists for m = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, and 0.5. Our data strengthen the hypothesis that four-flavor QCD has a first-order finite-temperature transition for all quark masses

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Rev., D
Journal Volume
38
Journal Issue
4
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
1288-1295
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDA