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Spectrum of orientifold QCD in the strong coupling and hopping expansion approximation

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2014-11-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We use the strong coupling and hopping parameter expansions to calculate the pion and rho meson masses for lattice Yang-Mills gauge theories with fermions in irreducible two-index representations, namely the adjoint, symmetric and antisymmetric. The results are found to be consistent with orientifold planar equivalence, and leading order 1/N corrections are calculated in the lattice phase. An estimate of the critical bare mass, for which the pion is massless, is obtained as a function of the bare coupling. A comparison to data from the two-flavour SU(2) theory with adjoint fermions gives evidence for a bulk phase transition at beta~2, separating a pure lattice phase from a phase smoothly connected to the continuum.

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@article{arxiv.0911.5111,
  title  = {Spectrum of orientifold QCD in the strong coupling and hopping expansion approximation},
  author = {Gregory Moraitis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.5111},
  year   = {2014}
}

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16 pages