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Thermodynamics of lattice QCD with 2 light dynamical (staggered) quark flavours on a 16{sup 3} {times} 8 lattice

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OSTI ID:10131922
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  1. Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States). Dept. of Physics
  2. Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States). Supercomputer Computations Research Inst.
  3. Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics
  4. Thinking Machines Corp., Cambridge, MA (United States)
  5. University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL (United States). Dept. of Physics
  6. Argonne National Lab., IL (United States). High Energy Physics Div.
  7. California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  8. Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ (United States). Dept. of Physics
  9. New South Wales Univ., Kensington (Australia). School of Physics
Lattice QCD with 2 light staggered quark flavours is being simulated on a 16{sup 3} {times} 8 lattice to study the transition from hadronic matter to a quark gluon plasma. We have completed runs at m{sub q} = 0.0125 and are extending this to m{sub q} = 0.00625. We also examine the addition of a non-dynamical ``strange`` quark. Thermodynamic order parameters are being measured across the transition and further into the plasma phase, as are various screening lengths. No evidence for a first order transition is seen, and we estimate the transition temperature to be {Tc} = 143(7)MeV.
Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab., IL (United States). High Energy Physics Div.
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-31109-ENG-38
OSTI ID:
10131922
Report Number(s):
ANL-HEP-CP--92-4; CONF-9111179--3; ON: DE92009731
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English