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We investigate the emergence of geometric phases in chiral transformations within gauge theories coupled to fermions. We begin by analyzing the Schwinger model in (1+1) dimensions, where chiral symmetry is explicitly modified due to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-10 Jorge Gamboa

I present the recent developments in a specific sub-field of chiral gauge theories on the lattice. This sub-field pertains to the use of infinitely many fermi fields to describe a single chiral field. In this approach, both anomalous and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Rajamani Narayanan

We discuss how the $1/N_c$ expansion and the chiral random matrix theory ($\chi$RMT) can be used in the study of large-$N_c$ gauge theories. We first clarify the parameter region in which each of these two approaches is valid: while the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-08-09 Masanori Hanada , Jong-Wan Lee , Norikazu Yamada

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

We investigate the phase structure of the SU(3) gauge theory with $N_f=8$ by numerical simulations employing the massless Domain-Wall fermions.Our aim is to study directly the massless quark region, since it is the most important region to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-11-23 J. Noaki , G. Cossu , K-I. Ishikawa , Y. Iwasaki , T. Yoshie

This proceedings paper extends the scope of our conference talk, where we presented a comprehensive analysis of newly expanded and refined lattice data concerning the SU(3) gauge theory with Nf = 8 light Dirac fermions - a theory positioned…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-01-17 James Ingoldby

The chiral fermion model with local multifermion interactions proposed in Nucl. Phys. B486 (1997) 282 and Phys. Rev. D61 (2000) 054502 processes an exact SU_L(2) chiral gauge symmetry and SU_L(2) by U_R(1) chiral flavour symmetry on a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 She-Sheng Xue

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

Infrared fixed points of gauge theories provide intriguing targets for the modern conformal bootstrap program. In this work we provide some preliminary evidence that a family of gauged fermionic CFTs saturate bootstrap bounds and can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-29 Zhijin Li , David Poland

When the number of massless fermions exceeds a critical value $N_f^*$, QCD enters the conformal window and becomes chirally symmetric already in the vacuum. Determining $N_f^*$ from lattice simulations is challenging, since calculations are…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-23 Jan Philipp Klinger , Reinhold Kaiser , Owe Philipsen , Jonas Schaible

We look for UV fixed points of non-abelian $SU(n_c)$ gauge theories in $4+2\epsilon$ dimensions with $n_f$ Dirac fermions in the fundamental representation, using the available five-loop $\overline{{\rm MS}}$ $\beta$-function and employing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-02 Fabiana De Cesare , Lorenzo Di Pietro , Marco Serone

In continuum field theory, it has been discussed that chiral gauge theories with Weyl fermions in anomalous gauge representations (anomalous gauge theories) can consistently be quantized, provided that some of gauge bosons are permitted to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-07-19 Yoshio Kikukawa , Hiroshi Suzuki

We classify $su(N_c)$ gauge theories on $\mathbb R^3\times \mathbb S^1$ with massless fermions in higher representations obeying periodic boundary conditions along $\mathbb S^1$. In particular, we single out the class of theories that is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Mohamed M. Anber , Loïc Vincent-Genod

We identify and characterise the conformal window in gauge theories relevant for beyond the standard model building, e.g. Technicolour, using the criteria of metric confinement and causal analytic couplings, which are known to be consistent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-27 Mads T. Frandsen , Thomas Pickup , Michael Teper

I review the problem of formulating chiral symmetry in lattice gauge theory. I discuss recent approaches involving an infinite tower of additional heavy states to absorb Fermion doublers. For hadronic physics this provides a natural scheme…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Creutz

We introduce fundamental gauge theories that can be employed to construct informed composite bright and dark extensions of the Standard Model, within and beyond the standard paradigms. The gap between theory and experiments is bridged by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-13 Giacomo Cacciapaglia , Claudio Pica , Francesco Sannino

We present analytical results to guide numerical simulations with Wilson fermions in higher representations of the colour group. The ratio of $\Lambda$ parameters, the additive renormalization of the fermion mass, and the renormalization of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Luigi Del Debbio , Mads T. Frandsen , Haralambos Panagopoulos , Francesco Sannino

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

Dynamical nature of the gauge degree of freedom and its effect to fermion spectrum are studied for four-dimensional nonabelian chiral gauge theory in the vacuum overlap formulation. The covariant gauge fixing term and the Faddeev-Popov…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshio Kikukawa

We investigate the spectrum and IR properties of the SU(3) "sextet" model with two Dirac fermions in the two-index symmetric representation via lattice simulations. This model is a prime candidate for a realization of Walking Technicolor,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-08-30 Martin Hansen , Vincent Drach , Claudio Pica