The finite temperature phase transition in four flavour QCD on an 8×12 ³ lattice

Summary, in English

We present results of a numerical study of lattice QCD with four dynamical flavours of staggered fermions, performed by using a hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm on an 8×12 ³ lattice. We find a rapid change in the average value of the Polyakov loop at β _c =5.25±0.025 for a quark mass ma=0.025; at this mass value, the behaviour of the chiral order parameter, 〈ΨΨ〉 does not yet allow an independent determination of the transition point. Using existing hadron mass calculations, the value of β _c we have obtained here would lead to a transition temperature T∼100 MeV.

• Author: R. V. Gavai; Sourendu Gupta; A. Irbäck; F. Karsch; S. Meyer; B. Petersson; H. Satz; H. W. Wyld
• Publishing year: 1989-12-14
• Language: English
• Pages: 491-497
• Publication/Series: Physics Letters B
• Volume: 232
• Issue: 4
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(89)90447-4
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0370-2693