# XQCD 2016

1-3 August 2016
Plymouth University
Europe/London timezone
The 14th International workshop on QCD in extreme conditions, Aug. 1-3 2016

## A new method to determine the topological susceptibility at high-temperature

1 Aug 2016, 17:25
2h 5m
Portland Square (Plymouth University)

### Portland Square

#### Plymouth University

Drake Circus Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA, UK
Poster Bulk properties of the quark-gluon plasma

### Speaker

Dr Julien Frison (KEK Theory Center)

### Description

At $T>T_c$, the topological susceptibility quickly drops down, although the precise speed of this fall is still subject to theoretical debates. It then becomes practically impossible for lattice QCD to handle volumes large enough to allow non-trivial topology and a precise sampling of the sectors involved in the $\theta=0$ vacuum. We present a new method applicable to the computation of the decrease of the susceptibility on a wide range of situations, including in particular finite-temperature ensembles with $\chi_t\ll 1/V$. This method distinguishes itself from most other methods by not relying on the $\theta=0$ vacuum, nor any semi-classical approximation around $\theta=0$, but only on topology-fixed configurations. We will provide some encouraging preliminary results on quenched ensembles, and discuss the generalisation to any simulation.

### Primary authors

Dr Julien Frison (KEK Theory Center) Dr Norikazu Yamada (KEK Theory Center) Prof. Ryuichiro Kitano (KEK Theory Center)

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