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Topology of Minimal Walking Technicolor

Ed Bennett, Biagio Lucini Orcid Logo, Ed Bennett Orcid Logo

The European Physical Journal C, Volume: 73, Issue: 5

Swansea University Authors: Biagio Lucini Orcid Logo, Ed Bennett Orcid Logo

DOI (Published version): 10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2426-6

Abstract

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 window. In the theory deformed with a small mass term, by drawing...

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Published in: The European Physical Journal C
Published: 2013
Online Access: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5579
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa20515
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Abstract: 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 window. In the theory deformed with a small mass term, by drawing a comparison with the pure gauge theory, we find that topological observables are decoupled from the fermion dynamics. This provides further evidence for the infrared conformality of the theory. A study of the instanton size distribution shows that this quantity can be used to detect the onset of finite size effects.
Keywords: Lattice gauge theory, Topology, IR conformality
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Issue: 5