出版社：SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要：We report on our study of QCD thermodynamics with 2 1 flavors of dynamical quarks. In this
proceeding we present several thermodynamic quantities and our recent calculation of the critical
temperature. In order to investigate the thermodynamic properties of QCD near the continuum
limit we adopt improved staggered (p4) quarks coupled with tree-level Symanzik improved glue
on Nt
4 and 6 lattices. The simulations are performed with a physical value of the strange quark
mass and light quark masses which are in the range of mq ms
0
05
0
4. The lightest quark
mass corresponds to a pion mass of about 150 MeV.
