@article{62d0755c98ea46f299661e8cf374e285,
title = "Chiral aspects of improved staggered fermions with 2+1-flavors from the HotQCD collaboration",
abstract = "We present recent results from lattice simulations of 2+1 flavors of improved staggered fermions at zero baryon number density near the high temperature crossover. Included are new results from simulations of asqtad fermions at Nτ = 12 and a nearly physical Goldstone pion mass and from simulations of HISQ fermions at Nτ = 6 and 8. We focus on observables sensitive to chiral symmetry and confinement. A companion HotQCD talk discusses the effects of staggered-fermion taste-symmetry breaking on thermodynamic quantities.",
author = "{HotQCD Collaboration} and Wolfgang S{\"o}ldner and A. Bazavov and T. Bhattacharya and M. Cheng and Christ, {N. H.} and C. DeTar and S. Gottlieb and R. Gupta and P. Hegde and Heller, {U. M.} and C. Jung and F. Karsch and E. Laermann and L. Levkova and C. Miao and Mawhinney, {R. D.} and S. Mukherjee and P. Petreczky and D. Renfrew and C. Schmidt and Soltz, {R. A.} and W. S{\"o}ldner and R. Sugar and D. Toussaint and W. Unger and P. Vranas",
note = "Funding Information: †This work has been supported in part by contracts DE-AC02-98CH10886 and DE-FC02-06ER-41439 with the U.S. Department of Energy and contract 0555397 with the National Science Foundation. The numerical calculations have been performed using USQCD resources at Fermilab and JLab, the BlueGene/L at the New York Center for Computational Sciences (NYCCS), and the BlueGene/L at the J{\"u}lich Supercomputing Center. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence.; 28th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Lattice 2010 ; Conference date: 14-06-2010 Through 19-06-2010",
year = "2010",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "105",
journal = "Proceedings of Science",
issn = "1824-8039",
publisher = "Sissa Medialab Srl",
}