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The frequently discussed strongly interacting gauge theory with a fermion flavor doublet in the two-index symmetric (sextet) representation of the SU(3) color gauge group is investigated \cite{Fodor:2012ty}. The chiral condensate and the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-11-28 Zoltan Fodor , Kieran Holland , Julius Kuti , Daniel Nogradi , Chris Schroeder , Chik Him Wong

SU(3) gauge theory coupled to N_f = 2 fermions in the sextet representation is a promising candidate for a technicolor inspired Standard Model extension. In this note the progress in the past few years aimed at understanding the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-06-01 Daniel Nogradi

QCD with gauge group $SU(N_c)$ flows to an interacting conformal fixed point in three spacetime dimensions when the number of four-component Dirac fermions $N_f \gg N_c$. We study the stability of this fixed point via the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-28 Hart Goldman , Michael Mulligan

We propose a novel renormalization scheme for the hadronic operators. As an example, we show the numerical simulation result for the anomalous dimension of the pseudo scalar operator of the SU(3) gauge theory coupled to Nf = 12 fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-11-14 Etsuko Itou

We discuss weak coupling perturbation theory for lattice actions in which the fermions couple to smeared gauge links. The normally large integrals that appear in lattice perturbation theory are drastically reduced. Even without detailed…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 C. Bernard , T. DeGrand

We present the updated results of the infrared behavior of the SU(2) 6 and 8 fundamental representation fermions. We use the gradient flow method with the Schr\"odinger functional boundary conditions to measure the running of the coupling…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Viljami Leino , Jarno Rantaharju , Teemu Rantalaiho , Kari Rummukainen , Joni M. Suorsa , Kimmo Tuominen , Sara Tähtinen

The research of strongly coupled beyond-the-standard-model theories has generated significant interest in non-abelian gauge field theories with different number of fermions in different representations. Motivated by the increased interest…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-11 Anne Mykkanen , Jarno Rantaharju , Kari Rummukainen , Tuomas Karavirta , Kimmo Tuominen

Inspired by recent studies of high-scale decay constant or flavorful QCD axions, we review and clarify their existence in effective string models with anomalous $U(1)$ gauge groups. We find that such models, when coupled to charged scalars…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-21 Quentin Bonnefoy , Emilian Dudas

We summarize our recent work on gauge theories with two flavors of fermions in the two-index symmetric representation: SU(2) gauge theory with adjoint fermions, SU(3) with sextets, and SU(4) with ten-dimensional-representation fermions. All…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-11-02 Thomas DeGrand , Yigal Shamir , Benjamin Svetitsky

We present preliminary results of the running of the coupling in SU(2) gauge theory with 6 massless fundamental representation fermion flavors. We measure the coupling using the gradient flow method with Schr\"odinger functional boundary…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-11-03 Viljami Leino , Teemu Rantalaiho , Kari Rummukainen , Joni M. Suorsa , Kimmo Tuominen , Sara Tähtinen

We measure the evolution of the coupling constant using the Schroedinger functional method in the lattice formulation of SU(2) gauge theory with two massless Dirac fermions in the adjoint representation. We observe strong evidence for an…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-05-29 Ari J. Hietanen , Kari Rummukainen , Kimmo Tuominen

We review recent developments in our understanding of the dynamics of strongly-coupled chiral $SU(N)$ gauge theories in four dimensions, problems which are potentially important in our quest to go beyond the standard $SU(3)_{QCD} \times…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-26 Kenichi Konishi , Stefano Bolognesi , Andrea Luzio

We provide an extended lattice study of the SU(2) gauge theory coupled to one Dirac fermion flavour ($N_{\mathrm{f}} =1$) transforming in the adjoint representation as the continuum limit is approached. This investigation is supplemented by…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-13 Andreas Athenodorou , Ed Bennett , Georg Bergner , Pietro Butti , Julian Lenz , Biagio Lucini

Strongly coupled gauge systems with many fermions are important in many phenomenological models. I use the 2-lattice matching Monte Carlo renormalization group method to study the fixed point structure and critical indexes of SU(3) gauge…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-20 Anna Hasenfratz

We present a brief overview of our recent lattice studies of SU(3) gauge theory with N_f = 8 and 12 fundamental fermions, including some new and yet-unpublished results. To explore relatively unfamiliar systems beyond lattice QCD, we carry…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-08-23 Anna Hasenfratz , Anqi Cheng , Gregory Petropoulos , David Schaich

We show the numerical simulation result for the mass anomalous dimension of the SU($3$) gauge theory coupled to $N_f = 12$ fundamental fermions. We use two independent methods, namely the step scaling method and the hyperscaling method of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-06 Etsuko Itou , Akio Tomiya

We present a measurement of the Schr\"odinger Functional running coupling in SU(2) lattice gauge theory with adjoint fermions. We use HEX smearing and clover improvement to reduce the discretization effects. We obtain a robust continuum…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-08-23 Jarno Rantaharju , Kari Rummukainen , Kimmo Tuominen

We review the state-of-the-art knowledge of IR singularities in multileg QCD amplitudes, identifying the key reasons for the remarkable simplicity of the soft anomalous dimension. We then present a novel strategy to compute this quantity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-22 Einan Gardi , Zehao Zhu

We summarize our results concerning the spectrum and mass anomalous dimension of SU(2) gauge theories with various numbers of fermions in the adjoint representation, where each Majorana fermion corresponds effectively to half a Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-02-01 Georg Bergner , Pietro Giudice , Istvan Montvay , Gernot Münster , Stefano Piemonte

We study the SU(3) lattice gauge theory, with two flavors of sextet Wilson-clover fermions, near its finite-temperature phase transition. We find metastable states that have Wilson line expectation values whose complex phases are near 2pi/3…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-01-27 Olga Machtey , Benjamin Svetitsky