Thermodynamics of (2+1)-flavor QCD

Abstract

We report on the status of our QCD thermodynamics project. It is performed on the QCDOC machine at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the APEnext machine at Bielefeld University. Using a 2+1 flavor formulation of QCD at almost realistic quark masses we calculated several thermodynamical quantities. In this proceeding we show the susceptibilites of the chiral condensate and the Polyakov loop, the static quark potential and the spatial string tension.

Comments: To appear in the proceedings of International Conference on Strong and Electroweak Matter (SEWM 2006), Upton, New York, 10-13 May 2006