First Physics from HotQCD Collaboration

The following pages show results from the first series of runs on BG/L using the unoptimized code from the MILC collaboration. The calculations were run with the AsqTad improved staggered fermion action and the RHMC algorithm on a 32{sup 3} x 8 lattice. The jobs were run mostly during October, 2006 on approximately 5% of the machine. The run consisted of approximately 1000 trajectories per beta value, spanning beta = 6.458 to 6.85, covering a temperature range of 140-210 MeV.