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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

In this work we attempt to determine the mass anomalous dimension of the SU(N) gauge theory with two Dirac fermions in the adjoint representation, in the limit of large N. The method uses the mode number of the Dirac operator, as done in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-30 Liam Keegan

We perform a lattice study of the topological susceptibility and instanton size distribution of the $\su{2}$ gauge theory with two adjoint Dirac fermions (also known as Minimal Walking Technicolor), which is known to be in the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-05-13 Ed Bennett , Biagio Lucini

We study SU(2) gauge theory with two Dirac fermions in the adjoint representation of the gauge group on the lattice. Using clover improved Wilson fermion action with hypercubic truncated stout smearing we perform simulations at larger…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-05-27 Jarno Rantaharju , Teemu Rantalaiho , Kari Rummukainen , Kimmo Tuominen

Extended simulation results and their analysis are reported in a strongly coupled gauge theory with twelve fermion flavors in the fundamental SU(3) color representation. The conformality of the model is probed using mass deformed conformal…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-11-20 Zoltan Fodor , Kieran Holland , Julius Kuti , Daniel Nogradi , Chris Schroeder , Chik Him Wong

Many evidences from lattice simulations support the idea that SU(2) with two Dirac flavors in the adjoint representation (also called Minimal Walking Technicolor) is IR conformal. A possible way to see this is through the behavior of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-11-22 Luigi Del Debbio , Biagio Lucini , Agostino Patella , Claudio Pica , Antonio Rago

We present a numerical study of spectroscopic observables in the SU(2) gauge theory with two adjoint fermions using improved source and sink operators. We compare in detail our improved results with previous determinations of masses that…

An SU(2) gauge theory with two fermions transforming under the adjoint representation of the gauge group may appear conformal or almost conformal in the infrared. We use lattice simulations to study the spectrum of this theory and present…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-05-12 Ari J. Hietanen , Jarno Rantaharju , Kari Rummukainen , Kimmo Tuominen

We search for infrared zeros of the beta function and evaluate the anomalous dimension of the mass at the associated fixed point for asymptotically free vector-like fermionic gauge theories with gauge group SU(N). The fixed points of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-02 Thomas A. Ryttov

We present a first exploratory study of SU(2) gauge theory with one Dirac flavour in the adjoint representation. We provide initial results for the spectroscopy and the anomalous dimension for the chiral condensate. Our investigation…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-11-19 Andreas Athenodorou , Ed Bennett , Georg Bergner , Biagio Lucini , Agostino Patella

{We present the results of a numerical investigation of SU(2) gauge theory with $N_f=3/2$ flavours of fermions, corresponding to 3 Majorana fermions, which transform in the adjoint representation of the gauge group. At two values of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-11-12 Georg Bergner , Pietro Giudice , Istvan Montvay , Gernot Münster , Stefano Piemonte , Philipp Scior

The mass anomalous dimension for several gauge theories with an infrared fixed point has recently been determined using the mode number of the Dirac operator. In order to better understand the sources of systematic error in this method, we…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-08-21 Liam Keegan

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 a major update on our investigations of SU(2) gauge theory with one Dirac flavor in the adjoint representation on the lattice. In particular we consider larger volumes, as well as four different values of the gauge coupling. We…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-04-18 Andreas Athenodorou , Ed Bennett , Georg Bergner , Biagio Lucini

We compute the spectrum of SU(2) gauge theory with two, four or six Dirac fermions in the fundamental representation of the gauge group. We investigate the scaling of the meson masses as a function of the quark mass when approaching the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-06-20 Alessandro Amato , Viljami Leino , Kari Rummukainen , Kimmo Tuominen , Sara Tähtinen

We extend our previous study of the SU(3) gauge theory with N_f=2 flavors of fermions in the sextet representation of color. Our tool is the Schroedinger functional method. By changing the lattice action, we push the bulk transition of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-05-01 Thomas DeGrand , Yigal Shamir , Benjamin Svetitsky

We define a scale-dependent effective mass anomalous dimension from the scaling of the mode number of the massless Dirac operator, which connects the perturbative $\gamma_m$ of an asymptotically-free system to the universal…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-09-21 Anqi Cheng , Anna Hasenfratz , Gregory Petropoulos , David Schaich

We present a perturbative calculation of finite-size effects near $T_c$ of the $\phi^4$ lattice model in a $d$-dimensional cubic geometry of size $L$ with periodic boundary conditions for $d > 4$. The structural differences between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 X. S. Chen , V. Dohm

We present an update of our ongoing study of the SU(2) gauge theory with one flavor of Dirac fermion in the adjoint representation. Compared to our previous results we now have data at larger lattice volumes, smaller values of the fermion…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-01-05 Ed Bennett , Andreas Athenodorou , Georg Bergner , Pietro Butti , Biagio Lucini

The solvability of the three-dimensional O($N$) scalar field theory in the large $N$ limit makes it an ideal toy model exhibiting "walking" behavior, expected in some SU($N$) gauge theories with a large number of fermion flavors. We study…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-22 Sinya Aoki , Janos Balog , Peter Weisz