Critical point in heavy-quark region of QCD on fine lattices

Abstract

We perform a finite-size scaling analysis of the critical point in the heavy-quark region of QCD at nonzero temperature. Our previous analysis on the Binder cumulant at $N_t=4$ is extended to finer lattices with $N_t=6$ and $8$. The aspect ratio is also extended up to $15$ to suppress the non-singular contribution. High-precision analysis of the Binder cumulant is realized by an efficient Monte-Carlo simulation with the hopping-parameter expansion (HPE). Effects of higher-order terms in the HPE are incorporated by the reweighting method.

Comments: 7 pages, 8 figures, proceedings of Lattice 2023