The N_f=2 phase transition: Towards the chiral limit with reduced systematic effects

by Dr Bastian Brandt (University of Mainz)

Wednesday 23 Nov 2011, 14:30 → 15:30 Asia/Kolkata

A304 (Colaba Campus)

I report on the status of our current study on the transition temperature and the order of deconfinement and chiral transition in the chiral limit of two-flavour QCD. To reduce possible systematic effects we utilise non-perturbatively O(a)-improved Wilson fermions and work on lattices as large as 16 x 64³ with pion masses down to 200 MeV. I also report on results, obtained with an extended Multi-Histogram method for beta-dependent fermion actions and discuss its stability.