Chiral transition via the Banks-Casher relation

Abstract

We investigate the properties of the finite-temperature QCD transition towards the chiral limit using staggered quarks. Starting from the 2+1-flavor physical point, the limit of massless quarks is approached along two different trajectories in the Columbia-plot. Unlike in previous approaches, the chiral condensate is determined via the Banks-Casher relation. The first results of our finite size scaling analysis are presented.

Comments: 7 pages, 7 figures. Parallel talk at the 36th Annual International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (LATTICE18), East Lansing, Michigan USA, 22-28 July 2018