Abstract
We have extended our earlier simulations of the high-temperature behavior of lattice QCD with two light flavors of staggered quarks on a 163×8 lattice to a lower quark mass (mq=0.00625). The transition from hadronic matter to a quark-gluon plasma is observed at 6/g2=5.49(2) corresponding to a temperature of Tc ≈ 140 MeV. We present measurements of observables which probe the nature of the quark-gluon plasma and serve to distinguish it from hadronic matter. Although the transition is quite abrupt, we have seen no indica-tions that it is first order.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 6852-6860 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Physical Review D |
Volume | 61 |
Issue number | 3 |
State | Published - 2000 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)