Wednesday, August 1, 2012

1207.7164 (David Schaich et al.)

Bulk and finite-temperature transitions in SU(3) gauge theories with
many light fermions
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David Schaich, Anqi Cheng, Anna Hasenfratz, Gregory Petropoulos
We investigate finite-temperature transitions in SU(3) lattice gauge theories with Nf=8 and 12 staggered fermions in the fundamental representation. For both of these systems, we have observed a strongly-coupled lattice phase in which the single-site shift symmetry of the staggered action is spontaneously broken. Here we report new results for finite-temperature transitions on 24^3x12 and 32^3x16 lattice volumes, contrasting the 8- and 12-flavor systems. While the Nf=12 finite-temperature transitions accumulate at the bulk transition bounding the strongly-coupled lattice phase, the Nf=8 finite-temperature transitions are able to pass through the bulk transition, and behave as expected for a QCD-like system. We discuss our current results and the work in progress to complete our investigation of the finite-temperature phase diagram.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7164

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