Thermal transition in QCD with Nf =2+1 flavours of Wilson quarks

16 February 2021 | 16:00
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Mapping out the QCD phase diagram remains one of the outstanding challenges in the theory of the strong interactions. By now, it is well established that the transition along the temperature axis, at vanishing baryon density, is a crossover. This result has been obtained, and confirmed, using simulations of lattice QCD with physical quark masses in the continuum limit, using so-called staggered fermions. Here we show results for Nf = 2 + 1 flavours of Wilson fermion. Observables are compared for two values of the pion mass, focusing on chiral properties for a number of observables.
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Prof Gert Aarts FLSW is a professor in theoretical physics, with research interests in QCD under extreme conditions, the sign problem, and computational and analytical approaches in quantum field theory. He is currently Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Advanced Computing (AIMLAC) and Head of the Particle Physics and Cosmology Theory group. Detailed information can be found on his homepage.
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