Nearly conformal electroweak sector with chiral fermions
Abstract
SU(3) gauge theory with dynamical overlap fermions in the 2-index symmetric (sextet) representation is considered. This model may be a viable model of the electroweak symmetry breaking sector along the lines of the walking technicolor paradigm. The number of fermion species is chosen such that the theory is expected to be below the conformal window. We will discuss how the epsilon-regime and random matrix theory can be used to test whether at any given set of parameters (N_c, N_f, representation) the theory is in the conformal phase or indeed just below it. Quenched Monte Carlo results are included in the fundamental representation and also preliminary dynamical ones in the 2-index symmetric representation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0809.4888,
title = {Nearly conformal electroweak sector with chiral fermions},
author = {Zoltan Fodor and Kieran Holland and Julius Kuti and Daniel Nogradi and Chris Schroeder},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4888},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
7 pages, 2 figures, talk presented at The XXVI International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 14 - 19, 2008, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA