Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2007-10-05
PoSCPOD07:028,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
10 pages, 7 figures, Invited talk at the workshop 'Critical point and onset of deconfinement', GSI Darmstadt, July 9-13 2007
Scientific paper
Lattice simulations employing reweighting and Taylor expansion techniques have predicted a (\mu,T)-phase diagram according to general expectations, with an analytic quark-hadron crossover at \mu=0 turning into a first order transition at some critical chemical potential \mu_E. By contrast, recent simulations using imgainary \mu followed by analytic continuation obtained a critical structure in the {m_{u,d},m_s,T,\mu} parameter space favouring the absence of a critical point and first order line. I review the evidence for the latter scenario, arguing that the various raw data are not inconsistent with each other. Rather, the discrepancy appears when attempting to extract continuum results from the coarse (N_t=4) lattices simulated so far, and can be explained by cut-off effects. New (as yet unpublished) data are presented, which for N_f=3 and on N_t=4 confirm the scenario without a critical point. Moreover, simulations on finer N_t=6 lattices show that even if there is a critical point, continuum extrapolation moves it to significantly larger values of \mu_E than anticipated on coarse lattices.
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