NIC-XIV School 2016

Latent heat and pressure gap at the first order transition point of SU(3) gauge theory

15 Jun 2016, 16:30

1h 30m

Library Hall, Central Library (Niigata University (Ikarashi Campus))

Board: 13

Poster Presentation Posters

Speaker

Mr Mizuki SHIROGANE (Niigata University)

Description

We calculate the energy gap (latent heat) and pressure gap between the hot and cold phases of the SU(3) gauge theory at the first order deconfining phase transition point. We perform simulations around the phase transition point with the lattice size in the temporal direction Nt = 6; 8 and 12 and extrapolate the results to the continuum limit. We also investigate the spatial volume dependence. The energy density andpressure are evaluated by the derivative method with non-perturabative anisotropy coefficients. We adopt a multi-point reweighting method to determine the anisotropy coefficients. We confirm that the anisotropy coefficients approach the perturbative values as Nt increases. We find that the pressure gap vanishes at all values of Nt when the non-perturbative anisotropy coefficients are used. The spatial volume dependence in the latent heat is found to be small on large lattices. Performing extrapolation to the continuum limit, we obtain Δε/T^4=0.825±0.116 and Δ(ε-3p)/T^4=0.664±0.052.