Finite Temperature Lattice QCD with Clover Fermions

Abstract

We report on our simulation of finite temperature lattice QCD with two flavors of $\mathcal{O}(a)$ Symanzik-improved fermions and $\mathcal{O}(a^2)$ Symanzik-improved glue. Our thermodynamic simulations were performed on an $8^3\times 4$ lattice, and we have performed complementary zero temperature simulations on an $8^3\times 16$ lattice. We compare our results to those from simulations with two flavors of Wilson fermions and discuss the improvement resulting from use of the improved action.

Comments: 3 pages, 4 figures, Talk presented at Lattice 96