1202.4719 (T. Umeda et al.)

Equation of state in 2+1 flavor QCD with improved Wilson quarks by the
fixed scale approach    [PDF]

T. Umeda, S. Aoki, S. Ejiri, T. Hatsuda, K. Kanaya, Y. Maezawa, H. Ohno

We study the equation of state in 2+1 flavor QCD with nonperturbatively
improved Wilson quarks coupled with the RG-improved Iwasaki glue. We apply the
$T$-integration method to nonperturbatively calculate the equation of state by
the fixed-scale approach. With the fixed-scale approach, we can purely vary the
temperature on a line of constant physics without changing the system size and
renormalization constants. Unlike the conventional fixed-$N_t$ approach, it is
easy to keep scaling violations small at low temperature in the fixed scale
approach. We study 2+1 flavor QCD at light quark mass corresponding to
$m_\pi/m_\rho \simeq 0.63$, while the strange quark mass is chosen around the
physical point. Although the light quark masses are heavier than the physical
values yet, our equation of state is roughly consistent with recent results
with highly improved staggered quarks at large $N_t$.

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