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A. Feo

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arXiv1997

One-flavour QCD at finite temperature

We present results, for heavy to moderate quark masses, of a study of thermodynamic properties of 1-flavour QCD, using the multiboson algorithm. Finite-size scaling behaviour is studied on lattices of size $8^3\times 4$, $12^3\times 4$ and $16^3\times 4$. It is shown that, for heavy quarks, the peak of the Polyakov loop susceptibility grows linearly with the spatial volume, indicating a first order phase transition. The deconfinement ratio and the distribution of the norm of the Polyakov loop corroborate this result. For moderately heavy quarks the first-order transition weakens and becomes a crossover. We estimate the end point of the first-order phase transition to occur at a quark mass of about 1.6 GeV.

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arXiv1996

Thermodynamics of 1-flavor QCD

We present first results, for heavy to moderate quark masses, of a study of thermodynamic properties of 1-flavor QCD, using the multiboson algorithm.

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arXiv1996

The three-loop beta function in SU(N) lattice gauge theories

We calculate the third coefficient of the lattice $β$ function in pure Yang-Mills theory. We make use of a computer code for solving perturbation theory analytically on the lattice. We compute the divergent integrals by using a method based on a Taylor expansion of the integrand in powers of the external momenta in $4 - ε$ dimensions. Our results are in agreement with a previous calculation by M. Lüscher and P. Weisz where the authors used a different technique. We also show how this new coefficient modifies the scaling function on the lattice in both the standard and energy schemes. In particular we show that asymptotic scaling is extremely well achieved in the energy scheme.

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arXiv1996

The 3-loop Beta Function of QCD

Using the background field technique, we calculate the 3-loop beta function of lattice $SU(N)$ gauge theories. In the pure gluonic case, we present our results, comparing to those recently obtained by Luescher and Weisz. We also provide a progress report in the case of QCD with Wilson fermions.

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arXiv1992

Three-Loop Results on the Lattice

We present some new three-loop results in lattice gauge theories, for the Free Energy and for the Topological Susceptibility. These results are an outcome of a scheme which we are developing (using a symbolic manipulation language), for the analytic computation of renormalization functions on the lattice.

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