Finite Temperature Lattice QCD - Baryons in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Abstract

Baryonic correlation functions provide an ideal tool to study parity doubling and chiral symmetry using lattice simulations. We present a study using $2+1$ flavors of anisotropic Wilson clover fermions on the FASTSUM ensembles and find clear evidence that parity doubling emerges in the quark-gluon plasma. This result is confirmed on the level of spectral functions, which are obtained using a MEM reconstruction. We further highlight the importance of Gaussian smearing in this study.

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, talk presented at "Excited QCD 2016", 6-12 March 2016, Costa da Caparica, Portugal