Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2009-03-25
Phys.Rev.D80:014504,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
31 pages, 24 EPS-figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.014504
We calculate the equation of state in 2+1 flavor QCD at finite temperature with physical strange quark mass and almost physical light quark masses using lattices with temporal extent Nt=8. Calculations have been performed with two different improved staggered fermion actions, the asqtad and p4 actions. Overall, we find good agreement between results obtained with these two O(a^2) improved staggered fermion discretization schemes. A comparison with earlier calculations on coarser lattices is performed to quantify systematic errors in current studies of the equation of state. We also present results for observables that are sensitive to deconfining and chiral aspects of the QCD transition on Nt=6 and 8 lattices. We find that deconfinement and chiral symmetry restoration happen in the same narrow temperature interval. In an Appendix we present a simple parametrization of the equation of state that can easily be used in hydrodynamic model calculations. In this parametrization we also incorporated an estimate of current uncertainties in the lattice calculations which arise from cutoff and quark mass effects. We estimate these systematic effects to be about 10 MeV
Bazavov Alexei
Bhattacharya Tanmoy
Cheng Mowei
Christ Norman H.
DeTar Carleton
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