Volume 396 - The 38th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (LATTICE2021) - Oral presentation
Funny business from the large $N_c$ finite temperature crossover
T. Degrand
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Pre-published on: May 16, 2022
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Abstract
It is well known that the deconfinement transition temperature for $SU(N_c)$ gauge theory is almost independent of $N_c$, and the transition is first order for $N_c \ge 3$. In the real world ($N_c=3$, light quarks) it is a crossover located far away from the pure gauge value. What happens to the transition temperature at fixed fermion mass if the number of fermion flavors is held constant ($N_f=2$) and $N_c$ is varied? There are multiple plausible stories, only one of which appears to be true when the systems are simulated on the lattice. I describe the physics issues which surround the question and my lattice - based answer to it.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.396.0568
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