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Two flavor QCD and Confinement

D'Elia, M. and Giacomo, A. Di and Pica, C. (2005) Two flavor QCD and Confinement. Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 72 . p. 114510. ISSN 1550-7998

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Abstract

We argue that the order of the chiral transition for N_f=2 is a sensitive probe of the QCD vacuum, in particular of the mechanism of color confinement. A strategy is developed to investigate the order of the transition by use of finite size scaling analysis. An in-depth numerical investigation is performed with staggered fermions on lattices with N_t=4 and N_s=12,16,20,24,32 and quark masses am_q ranging from 0.01335 to 0.307036. The specific heat and a number of susceptibilities are measured and compared with the expectations of an O(4) second order and of a first order phase transition. A second order transition in the O(4) and O(2) universality classes are excluded. Substantial evidence emerges for a first order transition. A detailed comparison with previous works is performed.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Imported from arXiv
Subjects: Area02 - Scienze fisiche > FIS/02 - Fisica teorica, modelli e metodi matematici
Divisions: Dipartimenti (from 2013) > DIPARTIMENTO DI FISICA
Depositing User: dott.ssa Sandra Faita
Date Deposited: 29 Jan 2014 21:49
Last Modified: 29 Jan 2014 21:49
URI: http://eprints.adm.unipi.it/id/eprint/1530

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