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Chiral Defect Fermions and the Layered Phase

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-10-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Chiral defect fermions on the lattice in 4+1 dimensions are analyzed using mean field theory. The fermion propagator has a localized chiral mode in weak coupling but loses it when the coupling in the unphysical fifth direction becomes too large. A layered phase \`a la Fu-Nielsen appears where the theory is vector-like in every layer.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9306017,
  title  = {Chiral Defect Fermions and the Layered Phase},
  author = {C. P. Korthals-Altes and S. Nicolis and J. Prades},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9306017},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages + postscript figure (We have correctly quoted the work of our reference 10 in the paper)

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