2013

Polyakov loop in 2+1 flavor QCD

Bazavov, A., Petreczky, P.

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We study the temperature dependence of the renormalized Polyakov loop in 2+1 flavor QCD for temperatures T<210 MeV.

  • We extend previous calculations by the HotQCD collaboration using the highly improved staggered quark action and perform a continuum extrapolation of the renormalized Polyakov loop.
  • We compare the lattice results with the prediction of non-interacting static-light hadron resonance gas, which describes the temperature dependence of the renormalized Polyakov loop up to T<140 MeV but fails above that temperature.
  • Furthermore, we discuss the temperature dependence of the light and strange quark condensates.

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