The QCD equation of state with dynamical quarks

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Borsányi, Szabolcs ^a   Endrődi, Gergely ^b   Fodor, Zoltán ^a,b   Jakovác, Antal ^a   Katz, Sándor D ^b   Krieg, Stefan ^a,c   Ratti, Claudia ^a   Szabó, Kálmán K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lattice gauge field theories; Lattice QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649748483     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2010)077     Document Type: Article

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