The Chiral Critical Point in 3-Flavour QCD
arXiv:hep-lat/0110039 · doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(01)01734-0
Abstract
We determine the second order endpoint of the line of first order phase transitions, which occur in the light quark mass regime of 3-flavour QCD at finite temperature, and analyze universal properties of this chiral critical point. A detailed analysis of Binder cumulants and the joint probability distributions of energy like and ordering-field like observables confirms that the chiral critical point belongs to the universality class of the 3d Ising model. From a calculation with improved gauge and staggered fermion actions we estimate that the transition is first order for pseudo-scalar meson masses less than about 200 MeV.
Talk given at 19th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2001), Berlin, Germany, 19-24 Aug 2001. 3 pages, LaTeX2e File, 2 EPS-files, Lattice2001(hightemp)
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