Finite temperature phase transition with two flavors of improved Wilson fermions
Abstract
The critical temperature is computed for N_f = 2 dynamical flavors of nonperturbatively improved Wilson fermions. The new simulations are performed on lattices 40^3 x 14 with lattice spacing and pion mass about 0.08 fm and 200 MeV, respectively. We find the deconfinement and chiral phase transitions to coincide within numerical precision. Our results are in broad agreement with a second order phase transition in the chiral limit. The critical temperature at the physical quark mass is found to be T_c = 172(3)(6) MeV.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- February 2011
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1102.4461
- Bibcode:
- 2011arXiv1102.4461B
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Lattice
- E-Print:
- 7 pages, 2 figures, presented at the XXVIII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Villasimius, Italy, June 14-19, 2010