The physics of eight flavours
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2008-12-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We study Quantum Chromodynamics with eight flavours by use of lattice simulations and present evidence that the theory still breaks chiral symmetry in the zero temperature, continuum limit. This confirms that the lower end of the conformal window of QCD lies above Nf = 8.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0804.2905,
title = {The physics of eight flavours},
author = {Albert Deuzeman and Maria Paola Lombardo and Elisabetta Pallante},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.2905},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
19 pages, 7 figures; added a number of relevant references and comments to introduction, enhanced captions for figures 6 and 7, corrected typos and minor lapses of style