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The Conformal Window of deformed CFT's in the planar limit

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-20 v2

Abstract

We discuss in the planar approximation the effect of double-trace deformations on CFT's. We show that this large class of models posses a conformal window describing a non-trivial flow between two fixed points of the renormalization group, and reveal the presence of a resonance which we associate to the remnant of a dilaton pole. As the conformal window shrinks to zero measure the theory undergoes a conformal phase transition separating a symmetric from a nonsymmetric phase. The recently conjectured strongly coupled branch of non-supersymmetric, non-abelian gauge theories with a large number of flavors is analyzed in light of these results, and a model for the strong branch is proposed. Some phenomenological implications in the context of unparticle physics are also emphasized.

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@article{arxiv.1004.2063,
  title  = {The Conformal Window of deformed CFT's in the planar limit},
  author = {Luca Vecchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.2063},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

15 pages PRD class, 2 figures, to be published in PRD