Speaker
            Dr
    Claudio Bonati
        
            (Università di Pisa)
        
    Description
We will present a determination of the topological properties of QCD for temperatures up to around 600MeV, obtained by using Lattice QCD simulations with 2+1 flavours of fermions at the physical point.  Numerical results will be compared with the predictions of instanton gas calculations and the implications of these results for the cosmological bounds on the axion mass will be discussed.
            Author
        
            
                
                        Dr
                    
                
                    Claudio Bonati
                
                
                        (Università di Pisa)
                    
            
        
    
        Co-authors
        
            
                
                        Dr
                    
                
                    Francesco Negro
                
                
                        (Università di Pisa)
                    
            
        
            
                
                        Mr
                    
                
                    Francesco Sanfilippo
                
                
                        (LPT Orsay)
                    
            
        
            
                
                        Dr
                    
                
                    Giovanni Villadoro
                
                
                        (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste)
                    
            
        
            
                
                        Prof.
                    
                
                    Guido Martinelli
                
                
                        (Università "La Sapienza", Roma)
                    
            
        
            
                
                        Dr
                    
                
                    Marco Mariti
                
                
                        (Università di Pisa)
                    
            
        
            
                
                        Prof.
                    
                
                    Massimo D'Elia
                
                
                        (Università di Pisa)
                    
            
        
            
                
                        Mr
                    
                
                    Michele Mesiti
                
                
                        (University of Pisa and INFN - Sezione di Pisa)