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Quark number susceptibilities from lattice QCD

Rajiv V. Gavai

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0112269

Abstract

Results from our recent investigations of quark number susceptibilities in both quenched and 2-flavour QCD are presented as a function of valence quark mass and temperature. A strong reduction (approx. 40%) is seen in the strange quark susceptibility above Tc in both the cases. A comparison of our isospin susceptibility results with the corresponding weak coupling expansion reveals once again the non-perturbative nature of the plasma up to 3Tc. Evidence relating the susceptibility to another non-perturbative phenomena, pionic screening lengths, is presented.

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