Screening masses towards chiral limit

Abstract

A possible effective restoration of the anomalous $U_A(1)$ symmetry would have a non-trivial effect on the global phase diagram of QCD. In this work we investigate the effective restoration of the $U_A(1)$ through the calculation of scalar and pseudo-scalar screening masses and corresponding susceptibilities, for physical and lower than physical pion masses. Calculations have been performed in (2+1)-flavor HISQ discretization scheme with a physical value of the strange quark mass. Preliminary calculations of the continuum extrapolated scalar and pseudo-scalar masses are presented, based on lattices with three different temporal extent. Non-trivial structure of the difference between scalar and pseudo-scalar susceptibilites are discussed for $N_{\tau }=8$ lattices.

arXiv commentContribution to the proceeding of workshop "Criticality in QCD and the Hadron Resonance Gas", 29-31 July 2020, Wrocław, Poland

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