Where is the chiral critical point in 3-flavor QCD?

✍ Scribed by F. Karsch; C.R. Allton; S. Ejiri; S.J. Hands; O. Kaczmarek; E. Laermann; C. Schmidt

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 289 KB
• Volume: 129-130
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(03)02659-8

✦ Synopsis

We determine the location of the second order endpoint of the line of first order chiral phase transition in 3-flavor QCD at vanishing chemical potential (pLg). Using Ferrenberg-Swendsen reweighting for two values of the quark mass we determine the p,-dependence of the transition line and locate the chiral critical point. For both quantities we find a significant quark mass dependence.