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On the existence of a phase transition for QCD with three light quarks
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We report full QCD simulations on a ${16}^{3}$\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}4 lattice. For two degenerate flavors no finite-temperature phase transition is found for quark masses of ma=0.01 and 0.025, where a is the lattice spacing, while for three degenerate flavors a first-order transition is easily seen for ma=0.025. Nature, with nearly massless up and down quarks and one heavier strange quark, lies between these two cases. For ${\mathit{m}}_{\mathit{u},}$da=0.025 and ${\mathit{m}}_{\mathit{s}}$a=0.1 we find that ${\mathit{m}}_{\mathit{K}}$/${\mathit{m}}_{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\rho}}}$=0.46(1) and that no transition occurs, calling into question the existence of a QCD phase transition.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Brown, F. R., Butler, F. P., Chen, H., Christ, N. H., Dong, Z., Schaffer, W., Unger, L. I., & Vaccarino, A.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1990-11-12
- Volume
- 65
- Issue
- 20
- Pages
- 2491-2494
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2081858125
- Cited by
- 422
- References
- 13
- FWCI
- 20.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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