Title

Thermodynamics of lattice QCD with two light quarks on a 16(3)x8 lattice .2

Authors

Authors

S. Gottlieb; U. M. Heller; A. D. Kennedy; S. Kim; J. B. Kogut; C. Liu; R. L. Renken; D. K. Sinclair; R. L. Sugar; D. Toussaint;K. C. Wang

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Phys. Rev. D

Keywords

CHIRAL PHASE-TRANSITION; HIGH-TEMPERATURE QCD; GAUGE-THEORY; NUMBER; SUSCEPTIBILITY; HADRONIC SPECTRUM; 2-FLAVOR QCD; 2 FLAVORS; PLASMA; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics, Particles & Fields

Abstract

We have extended our earlier simulations of the high-temperature behavior of lattice QCD with two light flavors of staggered quarks on a 16(3)x8 lattice to a lower quark mass (m(q)=0.00625). The transition from hadronic matter to a quark-gluon plasma is observed at 6/g(2)=5.49(2) corresponding to a temperature of Tc approximate to 140 MeV. We present measurements of observables which probe the nature of the quark-gluon plasma and serve to distinguish it from hadronic matter. Although the transition is quite abrupt, we have seen no indications that it is first order.

Journal Title

Physical Review D

Volume

55

Issue/Number

11

Publication Date

1-1-1997

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

6852

Last Page

6860

WOS Identifier

WOS:A1997XD01800015

ISSN

0556-2821

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