Abstract
Motivated by the scenario of electroweak baryogenesis in the walking technicolor (WTC) model, we investigate thermodynamic properties of 8-flavor QCD by using Monte Carlo simulations in the lattice gauge theory framework. We adopt HISQ and tree-level Symanzik improved actions. We show that the chiral susceptibility has a peak structure, and that the ratio of chiral to pion susceptibilities starts showing an inflection point with decreasing fermion mass. These results suggest the existence of a chiral phase transition in 8-flavor QCD.
Type
Publication
Origin of Mass and Strong Coupling Gauge Theories (SCGT15)
Enrico Rinaldi
Research Scientist
My research interests include artificial intelligence and quantum computing applied to particle physics and quantum many-body systems.