The three flavour chiral phase transition with an improved quark and gluon action in lattice QCD
Abstract
The finite-temperature chiral phase transition is investigated for three flavours of staggered quarks on a lattice of temporal extent Nt=4. In the simulation we use an improved fermion action which reduces rotational symmetry breaking of the quark propagator (p4-action), include fat-links to improve the flavour symmetry and use the tree level improved (1,2) gluon action. We study the nature of the phase transition for quark masses of ma=0.025, ma=0.05 and ma=0.1 on lattices with spatial sizes of 83 and 163.
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