The QCD Critical Point : marching towards continuum

Abstract

We present results of our simulations of QCD with two light dynamical quarks on a 32^3 X 8 lattice at a current quark mass tuned to have the Goldstone pion mass of about 230 MeV. Employing the Taylor expansion method we proposed earlier, we estimate the radius of convergence of the series for the baryonic susceptibility by using terms up to eighth order. Together with our earlier results, corresponding to the same physical parameters but on coarser lattices at respectively 1.33 times and twice the lattice cut-off (a), we were able to attempt a march towards the continuum limit.

4 pages, 4 figures, To appear in the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Quark Matter 2012, August 13-18, 2012, Washington DC

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• QCD at finite chemical potential with six time slices
• Overlap Dirac operator at nonzero chemical potential and random matrix theory
• Thermodynamics of the ideal overlap quarks on the lattice

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