Quark Mass and Flavour Dependence of the QCD Phase Transition

Details Quark Mass and Flavour Dependence of the QCD Phase Transition Quark Mass and Flavour Dependence of the QCD Phase Transition

2000-12-20

arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0012023v1

Nucl.Phys.B605:579-599,2001

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Lattice

25 pages, LaTeX2e File, 11 EPS-files

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00200-0

We analyze the quark mass and flavour dependence of the QCD phase transition temperature. When the lightest pseudo-scalar meson mass (m_PS) is larger than 2 GeV the critical temperature is controlled by the gluonic sector of QCD alone. For smaller values of the lightest meson mass the pseudo-critical temperature decreases slowly with m_PS. For a large regime of meson masses the pseudo-critical temperature of 2-flavour QCD is about 10% larger than in the 3-flavour case. On lattices with temporal extent N_t=4 an extrapolation to the chiral limit yields T_c = 173(8) MeV and 154(8) MeV for 2 and 3-flavour QCD, respectively. We also analyze dynamical quark mass effects on the screening of the heavy quark potential. A detailed analysis of the heavy quark free energy in 3-flavour QCD shows that close to T_c screening effects are approximately quark mass independent already for pseudo-scalar meson masses m_PS = 800 MeV and screening sets in at distances r = 0.3 fm.

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