Thermodynamics of 2 and 3 flavour QCD

Abstract

We discuss recent results on the thermodynamics of QCD in the presence of light dynamical quark degrees of freedom. In particular, we concentrate on an analysis of the flavour and quark mass dependence of the QCD phase diagram, the equation of state and the transition temperature. Moreover, we present recent results on the heavy quark free energy.

10 pages, To appear in the proceedings of QCD@Work: International Conference on QCD: Theory and Experiment, Martina Franca, Italy, 16-20 Jun 2001

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• Lattice Results on QCD Thermodynamics
• Equation of state in finite-temperature QCD with two flavors of improved Wilson quarks
• On the Quasiparticle Description of Lattice QCD Thermodynamics

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