Clear Evidence for a First-Order Chiral Transition in QCD

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Authors

Rajan Gupta · Los Alamos National Laboratory

G. S. Guralnik · Los Alamos National Laboratory

Gregory W. Kilcup · Los Alamos National Laboratory

Apoorva Patel · Los Alamos National Laboratory

Stephen R. Sharpe · Los Alamos National Laboratory

Abstract

We present evidence from numerical simulations for a first-order chiral-symmetry-restoration transition in QCD at finite temperature. The transition appears only for small quark masses. We use an exact algorithm to incorporate the dynamical quarks.

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High-Energy Particle Collisions Research Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

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Publication Details

Published in: Physical Review Letters

Volume 57, Issue 21, pp. 2621-2624

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.57.2621

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