The Equation of State for Two Flavor QCD at Non-zero Chemical Potential
Abstract
We present results of a simulation of QCD on a 4x163 lattice with 2 continuum flavors of p4-improved staggered fermion with mass m/T=0.4. Derivatives of the thermodynamic grand potential with respect to quark chemical potential muq up to fourth order are calculated, enabling estimates of the pressure, quark number density and associated susceptibilities as functions of muq via Taylor series expansion. Discretisation effects associated with various staggered fermion formulations are discussed in some detail. In addition it is possible to estimate the radius of convergence of the expansion as a function of temperature. We also discuss the calculation of energy and entropy densities which are defined via mixed derivatives of the thermodynamic grand potential with respect to the bare couplings and quark masses.
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