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arxiv: hep-lat/0409097 · v1 · submitted 2004-09-15 · ✦ hep-lat

Three Flavor QCD at High Temperatures

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keywords quarkmassesquarksthreecrossoverdegeneratehighless
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We have continued our study of the phase diagram of high temperature QCD with three flavors of improved staggered quarks. We are performing simulations with three degenerate quarks with masses less than or equal to the strange quark mass m_s and with degenerate up and down quarks with masses m_{u,d} less than the strange quark mass. For the quark masses studied to date, we find a crossover that strengthens as m_{u,d} decreases, rather than a bona fide phase transition. We present new results for the crossover temperature extrapolated to the physical value of m_{u,d}, and for quark number susceptibilities.

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