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A parameter independent analysis of the QCD chiral phase transition and its universal critical behaviour

Jishnu Goswami, Frithjof Karsch, Sabarnya Mitra, Christian Schmidt

hep-latarXiv:2609.36010

Abstract

We make use of unique properties of scaling functions to estimate the chiral phase transition temperature and corresponding universal critical parameters of this phase transition directly from (2+1)-flavor QCD simulations with highly improved staggered fermions on lattices with temporal extent Nτ=8. Working with an improved chiral order parameter for quantifying chiral symmetry breaking, we analyze the finite-volume dependence of this observable for a wide range of lattice volumes and light quark masses, and quantitatively estimate the deviations from the expected universal scaling behaviour as a function of the light-to-strange quark mass ratio.

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