Towards the N_f=2 deconfinement transition temperature with O(a) improved Wilson fermions: An update

Abstract

We give an update on our current project to determine the transition temperature and the order of the deconfinement transition in the chiral limit of two flavour QCD. We use nonperturbatively O(a) improved Wilson fermions of the Sheikholeslami-Wohlert type, employing the efficient deflation accelerated DDHMC algorithm. We start at lattices with N_t>=12 and pion masses below 600 MeV, aiming at chiral and continuum limits with light quarks.

3 pages, 4 figures, talk given at "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum IX", Madrid, Spain, Aug. 30-Sep. 3, 2010, submitted to AIP Conference Proceedings