Edwin Laermann

Thermodynamics of SU(3) lattice gauge theory

The pressure and the energy density of the SU(3) gauge theory are calculated on lattices with temporal extent N-tau = 4, 6 and 8 and spatial extent N-sigma = 16 and 32. The results are then extrapolated to the continuum limit. In the investigated temperature range up to five times T-c we observe a 15% deviation from the ideal gas limit. We also present new results for the critical temperature on lattices with temporal extent N, = 8 and 12. At the corresponding critical couplings the string tension is calculated on 32(4) lattices to fix the temperature scale. An extrapolation to the continuum limit yields T-c/root sigma = 0.629(3). We furthermore present results on the electric and magnetic condensates as well as the temperature dependence of the spatial string tension, These observables suggest that the temperature dependent running coupling remains large even at T similar or equal to 5T(c). For the spatial string tension we find root sigma(s)/T = 0.566(13)g(2)(T) with g(2)(5T(c)) similar or equal to 1.5.

Chiral and deconfinement aspects of the QCD transition

We present results on the chiral and deconfinement properties of the QCD transition at finite temperature. Calculations are performed with 2 + 1 flavors of quarks using the p4, asqtad, and HISQ/tree actions. Lattices with temporal extent N-tau = 6, 8, and 12 are used to understand and control discretization errors and to reliably extrapolate estimates obtained at finite lattice spacings to the continuum limit. The chiral transition temperature is defined in terms of the phase transition in a theory with two massless flavors and analyzed using O(N) scaling fits to the chiral condensate and susceptibility. We find consistent estimates from the HISQ/tree and asqtad actions and our main result is T-c = 154 +/- 9 MeV.

Equation of state and QCD transition at finite temperature

We calculate the equation of state in

QCD thermal phase transition in the presence of a small chemical potential

2+1

Quark mass and flavour dependence of the QCD phase transition

flavor QCD at finite temperature with physical strange quark mass and almost physical light quark masses using lattices with temporal extent

The pressure in 2, 2+1 and 3 flavour QCD

{N}_{\ensuremath{\tau}}=8

Equation of state for two flavor QCD at nonzero chemical potential

. Calculations have been performed with two different improved staggered fermion actions, the asqtad and p4 actions. Overall, we find good agreement between results obtained with these two

Thermodynamics of two flavor QCD to sixth order in quark chemical potential

O({a}^{2})

The transition temperature in QCD

improved staggered fermion discretization schemes. A comparison with earlier calculations on coarser lattices is performed to quantify systematic errors in current studies of the equation of state. We also present results for observables that are sensitive to deconfining and chiral aspects of the QCD transition on

Baryon Number, Strangeness and Electric Charge Fluctuations in QCD at High Temperature

{N}_{\ensuremath{\tau}}=6