Critical end point of Nf=3 QCD at finite temperature and density

Abstract

We investigate the phase structure of 3-flavor QCD in the presence of finite quark chemical potential $a\mu =0.1$ by using the Wilson-Clover fermion action. Especially, we focus on locating the critical end point that characterizes the phase structure. We do this by the kurtosis intersection method for the quark condensate. For Wilson-type fermions, the correspondence between bare parameters and physical parameters is indirect. Hence we present a strategy to transfer the bare parameter phase structure to the physical one.

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures, 32nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory LATTICE 2014, June 23 - 28, 2014, New York, USA