Absence of Parity-Flavor Breaking Phase in QCD with two Flavors of Wilson fermions for beta greater than or equal to 5.0

Abstract

We present data testing the existence of a parity-flavor breaking phase in simulations of QCD with two flavors of light Wilson fermions. This is done by explicit simulations on lattice sizes of $6^4$, $8^4$ and $10^4$ for a variety of values of $\beta$ and $\kappa$ as well as the coefficient, $h$, of an explicit breaking term included in the action. We find that at $\beta =6/g^2$ equal to or greater than 5.0 extrapolation in the parameter $h$ as well as in the lattice volume show no indication of a phase where parity and flavor are spontaneously broken in the limit of zero $h$.

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