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We study the SU(3) gauge theory with twelve flavours of fermions in the fundamental representation as a prototype of non-Abelian gauge theories inside the conformal window. Guided by the pattern of underlying symmetries, chiral and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-23 M. P. Lombardo , K. Miura , T. J. Nunes da Silva , E. Pallante

We consider the problem of identifying the onset of the conformal window for QCD with $N_f$ massless flavors in the fundamental representation, and propose a new effective method to determine it from lattice simulations. This method is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-09 Massimo D'Elia , Marco Nacci , Kevin Zambello

We study the conformal window of QCD using perturbation theory, starting from the perturbative upper edge and going down as much as we can towards the strongly coupled regime. We do so by exploiting the available five-loop computation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-25 Lorenzo Di Pietro , Marco Serone

We consider an asymptotically free vectorial SU($N_c$) gauge theory with $N_f$ massless fermions in a representation $R$, having an infrared fixed point (IRFP) of the renormalization group at $\alpha_{IR}$ in the conformal non-Abelian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-19 Thomas A. Ryttov , Robert Shrock

We present a lattice study of the phase transitions at zero and nonzero temperature for the $SU(3)$ gauge theory with a varying number of flavours $N_f$ in the fundamental representation of the gauge group. We show that all results are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-20 Tiago Nunes da Silva , Elisabetta Pallante , Lasse Robroek

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 study the conformal window of gauge theories containing fermionic matter fields, where the gauge group is any of the exceptional groups with the fermions transforming according to the fundamental and adjoint representations and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-07 Matin Mojaza , Claudio Pica , Thomas A. Ryttov , Francesco Sannino

We report on the spectrum of the SU(3) gauge theory with twelve flavours in the fundamental representation of the gauge group. We isolate distinctive features of the hadronic phase - the one proper of QCD at zero temperature - and the so…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-01-10 Albert Deuzeman , Maria Paola Lombardo , Elisabetta Pallante

We investigate the gauge dynamics of nonsupersymmetric SU(N) gauge theories featuring the simultaneous presence of fermionic matter transforming according to two distinct representations of the underlying gauge group. We bound the regions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Thomas A Ryttov , Francesco Sannino

We derive an estimate of the lower boundary of the conformal window of SP(2N) and SO(N) gauge theories with fermionic matter in several different representations. We calculate the index of topological excitations for these groups on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-24 Siavash Golkar

By using the lattice Monte-Carlo simulation, we investigate the finite temperature (T) chiral phase transition at color SU(3) gauge theories with various species of fundamental fermions, and discuss the signal of the (pre-)conformality at…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-11 Kohtaroh Miura

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 study four-dimensional gauge theories coupled to fermions in the fundamental and meson-like scalars. All requisite beta functions are provided for general gauge group and fermion representation. In the regime where asymptotic freedom is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-17 Andrew D. Bond , Daniel F. Litim , Gustavo Medina Vazquez

We study the transition between spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking and conformal behavior in the SU(3) theory with multiple fermion flavors. Instead of the traditional approach of changing the number of flavors, we keep the number of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-13 Rich Brower , Anna Hasenfratz , Claudio Rebbi , Evan Weinberg , Oliver Witzel

We study the SU(2) gauge theory on the lattice with different numbers of fermions in the fundamental representation of the gauge group to explore the gauge theory phase diagram. We find evidence for an infrared fixed point for ten flavors.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-01-11 Tuomas Karavirta , Jarno Rantaharju , Kari Rummukainen , Kimmo Tuominen

We report new results for lattice gauge theories with twelve fermion flavors in the fundamental representation and two fermion flavors in the two-index symmetric (sextet) representation of the SU(3) color gauge group. Both models are…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-04-01 Zoltan Fodor , Kieran Holland , Julius Kuti , Daniel Nogradi , Chris Schroeder

We discuss finite temperature phase diagrams of SU(N) gauge theory with massless fermions as a function of the number of fermion flavors. Inside the conformal window we find a phase boundary separating two different conformal phases. Below…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-05 Kimmo Tuominen

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

We investigate SU(3) gauge theories in four dimensions with Nf fundamental fermions, on a lattice using the Wilson fermion. Clarifying the vacuum structure in terms of Polyakov loops in spatial directions and properties of temporal…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-06-18 K. -I. Ishikawa , Y. Iwasaki , Yu Nakayama , T. Yoshie

Using lattice simulations, we study the extent of the conformal window for an SU(3) gauge theory with N_f Dirac fermions in the fundamental representation. We extend our recently reported work, describing the general framework and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 Thomas Appelquist , George T. Fleming , Ethan T. Neil