- Accepted Paper
QCD crossover temperature and curvature coefficient from unbiased exponential resummation at physical quark masses in (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD
Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 13 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/xvsp-mh91
Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 13 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/xvsp-mh91
We present the first application of the unbiased exponential resummation method to the determination of the QCD pseudocritical temperature Tpc at vanishing baryon chemical potential µB. By reconstructing the finite-density baryon number susceptibility χ^B_2, we define two thermal-derivative observables whose peak positions yield T^T_pc = 160.2(4)(3) MeV and T^C_pc = 158.1(5)(3) MeV. We also show that the pseudocritical temperature T^χ_pc obtained from the peak of the fourth-order baryon number susceptibility χ^B_4 is consistent with these determinations and with previous lattice-QCD results based on Taylor expansions. Further, we demonstrate that scaling relations between χ^B_4 and the thermal derivatives of χ^B_2 yield mutually consistent estimates of the leading second order curvature coefficient κ^B_2 at the corresponding pseudocritical temperatures. A direct analysis of the µB dependence of the pseudocritical temperatures provides an independent but substantially less constrained determination of the curvature, which remains statistically consistent with the scaling-based estimates. These results demonstrate the consistency of unbiased exponential resummation with the expected scaling behavior and establish it as a complementary approach for probing the QCD crossover at small finite baryon density.
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