Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2010-12-06
PoS Lattice2010:169,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
7 pages, 7 figures, talk presented at the XXVIII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, June 14-19, 2010, Villasimiu
Scientific paper
Taste symmetry violations in staggered fermion formulations correlate strongly with the cut-off (lattice spacing) dependence in thermodynamic quantities. Better taste symmetry on the lattice can be achieved either by decreasing the lattice spacing and going to larger temporal extent in finite-temperature calculations, or by further improving the action. The highly improved staggered quark (HISQ) action offers a further degree of improvement and substantially reduces taste violations. We report on our studies of the 2+1 flavor QCD thermodynamics with the HISQ/tree action. By systematically comparing HISQ/tree, asqtad, p4 and stout calculations we quantify how the cut-off effects manifest themselves in different thermodynamic quantities, including the renormalized Polyakov loop, chiral condensate, various fluctuations and correlations of conserved charges. The implications for the equation of state and a comparison to the hadron resonance gas model are also discussed. The chiral aspects of the finite-temperature transition are discussed in the companion HotQCD contribution [1].
Bazavov Alexei
Petreczky Peter
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