On QCD Thermodynamics with Improved Actions

Preprint

8 July 1997

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-lat/9706006

Abstract

We discuss recent advances in the calculation of thermodynamic observables using improved actions. In particular, we discuss the calculation of the equation of state of the SU(3) gauge theory, the critical temperature in units of the string tension, the surface tension and the latent heat at the deconfinement transition. We also present first results from a calculation of the equation of state for four-flavour QCD using an O(a^2) improved staggered fermion action and discuss possible further improvements of the staggered fermion action.

Keywords

STAGGERED FERMION ACTION
ACTIONS WE DISCUSS
QCD THERMODYNAMICS
IMPROVED ACTIONS
THERMODYNAMICS
TENSION

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Published version: Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, 60 (1-2), 169.

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