THE QCD PHASE-TRANSITION WITH 4 FLAVORS OF LIGHT QUARKS

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作者
BROWN, FR
BUTLER, FP
CHEN, H
CHRIST, NH
DONG, ZH
SCHAFFER, W
UNGER, LI
VACCARINO, A
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[1] Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York
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10.1016/0370-2693(90)90250-A
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P1 [天文学];
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We have performed four-flavor, full QCD simulations on 163 × Nt lattices with Nt = 4 and 6 and with quark masses ma = 0.01, 0.025, 0.0375 and 0.05 where a is the lattice spacing. For Nt = 4 a first-order transition is seen for all four mass values and the chiral m→0 limit is easily recognized for the two lightest mass values. For Nt = 6 we see a weak first-order transition for ma = 0.01 but find that it has disappeared for ma = 0.025 showing that the transition becomes more easily destabilized by the quark mass as the lattice spacing is reduced. © 1990.
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