Finite temperature QCD at fixed Q with overlap fermions

TL;DR

This paper reports preliminary results on finite temperature QCD using overlap fermions, focusing on the effects of fixed topological sectors and initial calculations of topological susceptibility and meson masses in quenched and full QCD.

Contribution

It introduces the use of overlap fermions at finite temperature to study topological effects and presents initial calculations of key physical quantities.

Findings

Assessment of topological sector fixing effects at finite temperature

First calculations of topological susceptibility

First calculations of meson masses

Abstract

We present some preliminary results of the project on finite temperature QCD with overlap fermions at KEK. We performed a series of simulations to assess the effects of fixing the topological sector at finite temperature and we will show the first calculations of topological susceptibility and meson masses for quenched and full QCD.