Topological properties of full QCD at the phase transition

Authors
Alles, B D'Elia, M Di Giacomo, A Stephenson, PW
Citation
B. Alles et al., Topological properties of full QCD at the phase transition, NUCL PH B-P, 73, 1999, pp. 518-520
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
NUCLEAR PHYSICS B-PROCEEDINGS SUPPLEMENTS
ISSN journal
09205632 → ACNP
Volume
73
Year of publication
1999
Pages
518 - 520
Database
ISI
SICI code
0920-5632(199903)73:<518:TPOFQA>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
We investigate the topological properties of the QCD vacuum with 4 flavours of dynamical staggered fermions at finite temperature. To calculate the to pological susceptibility we use the field-theoretical method. As in the que nched case, a sharp drop is observed for the topological susceptibility acr oss the phase transition.