Zoltan Fodor and Sandor D. Katz JHEP03(2002)014 doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2002/03/014
Zoltan Fodor1,2 and Sandor D. Katz3
Show affiliationsBased on universal arguments it is believed that there is a critical point (E) in QCD on the temperature (T) versus chemical potential (μ) plane, which is of extreme importance for heavy-ion experiments. Using finite size scaling and a recently proposed lattice method to study QCD at finite μ we determine the location of E in QCD with nf = 2+1 dynamical staggered quarks with semi-realistic masses on Lt = 4 lattices. Our result is TE = 160±3.5 MeV and μE = 725±35 MeV. For the critical temperature at μ = 0 we obtained Tc = 172±3 MeV.
12.38.Gc Lattice QCD calculations
Issue 03 (March 2002)
Received 21 January 2002, accepted for publication 7 March 2002
Published 14 March 2002
Zoltan Fodor and Sandor D. Katz JHEP03(2002)014
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