XQCD 2018

We study the effect of an external static magnetic field of strength comparable with the QCD scale ${\mathrm{\Lambda }}_{QCD}\sim 200$ MeV on the deconfinement/chiral restoration transition. Lattice simulations have been carried out with $2+1$ flavours, Symanzik three-level improved gauge action and stout improved rooted staggered fermions. In particular, the dependence of the pseudocritical temperature $T_c$ on the magnetic field strength has been investigated. The pseudocritical temperature has been measured through different fermionic observables such as the renormalized chiral condensate and chiral susceptibility.