QCD at finite chemical potential with six time slices

Abstract

We investigate the Taylor expansion of the baryon number susceptibility, and hence, pressure, in a series in the baryon chemical potential (mu_B) through a lattice simulation with light dynamical staggered quarks at a finer lattice cutoff a=1/6T. We determine the QCD cross over coupling at mu_B=0. We find the radius of convergence of the series at various temeperatures, and bound the location of the QCD critical point to be T^E/T_c = 0.94 and mu_B^E/T < 1.8. We also investigate the extrapolation of various susceptibilities and linkages to finite chemical potential.

16 pages, 12 figures

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• The QCD transition temperature: results with physical masses in the continuum limit
• The transition temperature in QCD
• QCD thermodynamics with 2+1 flavors at nonzero chemical potential
• The critical end point in QCD

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