Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
1998-11-24
Phys.Rev. D60 (1999) 034504
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
LaTex, 25 pages, 18 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.60.034504
We present a study of the deconfinement phase transition of one-flavour QCD, using the multiboson algorithm. The mass of the Wilson fermions relevant for this study is moderately large and the non-hermitian multiboson method is a superior simulation algorithm. Finite size scaling is studied on lattices of size $8^3\times 4$, $12^3\times 4$ and $16^3\times 4$. The behaviours of the peak of the Polyakov loop susceptibility, the deconfinement ratio and the distribution of the norm of the Polyakov loop are all characteristic of a first-order phase transition for heavy quarks. As the quark mass decreases, the first-order transition gets weaker and turns into a crossover. To investigate finite size scaling on larger spatial lattices we use an effective action in the same universality class as QCD. This effective action is constructed by replacing the fermionic determinant with the Polyakov loop identified as the most relevant Z(3) symmetry breaking term. Higher-order effects are incorporated in an effective Z(3)-breaking field, $h$, which couples to the Polyakov loop. Finite size scaling determines the value of $h$ where the first order transition ends. Our analysis at the end - point, $h_{ep}$, indicates that the effective model and thus QCD is consistent with the universality class of the three dimensional Ising model. Matching the field strength at the end point, $h_{ep}$, to the $\kappa$ values used in the dynamical quark simulations we estimate the end point, $\kappa_{ep}$, of the first-order phase transition. We find $\kappa_{ep}\sim 0.08 $ which corresponds to a quark mass of about 1.4 GeV .
Alexandrou Constantia
Borici Artan
Feo Alessandra
Forcrand Philippe de
Galli Andrea
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