# The 39th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2022)

Aug 8 – 13, 2022
Hörsaalzentrum Poppelsdorf
Europe/Berlin timezone

## Topological features of the deconfinement transition in quenched QCD

Aug 9, 2022, 3:40 PM
20m
CP1-HSZ/Ground-0.011 - HS1 (CP1-HSZ)

### CP1-HSZ/Ground-0.011 - HS1

#### CP1-HSZ

450
Oral Presentation QCD at Non-zero Temperature

### Speaker

Reka Agnes Vig (University of Wuppertal)

### Description

The QCD crossover is marked by the rapid change in various observables such as the chiral condensate, the Polyakov loop or the topological susceptibility. We studied the topological properties in pure SU(3) gauge theory where the transition is first order.
Our study focused on the topological susceptibility and the $b_2$ coefficient of the expansion of the free energy density around $\theta=0$. There was already some evidence for the discontinuity in the topological susceptibility at the transition temperature in SU(N) Yang-Mills theories. We determined the continuum extrapolated value of this discontinuity for $N=3$ in the infinite volume limit. We also determined the temperature dependence of the $b_2$ coefficient directly at $\theta=0$ and by using information from imaginary $\theta$ simulations.

### Primary author

Reka Agnes Vig (University of Wuppertal)

### Co-authors

Ruben Kara (University of Wuppertal) Szabolcs Borsanyi (University of Wuppertal) Zoltan Fodor (University Wuppertal) Paolo Parotto (Penn State) Mr Daniel Godzieba (PennState)