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Infrared conformality and bulk critical points: SU(2) with heavy adjoint quarks
Journal of High Energy Physics, Volume: "1311", Issue: 11, Start page: 106
Swansea University Author:
Biagio Lucini
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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/JHEP11(2013)106
Abstract
The lattice phase structure of a gauge theory can be a serious obstruction to Monte Carlo studies of its continuum behaviour. This issue is particularly delicate when numerical studies are performed to determine whether a theory is in a (near-)conformal phase. In this work we investigate the heavy m...
| Published in: | Journal of High Energy Physics |
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| ISSN: | 1029-8479 |
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2013
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The lattice phase structure of a gauge theory can be a serious obstruction to Monte Carlo studies of its continuum behaviour. This issue is particularly delicate when numerical studies are performed to determine whether a theory is in a (near-)conformal phase. In this work we investigate the heavy mass limit of the SU(2) gauge theory with Nf=2 adjoint fermions and its lattice phase diagram, showing the presence of a critical point ending a line of first order bulk phase transition. The relevant gauge observables and the low-lying spectrum are monitored in the vicinity of the critical point with very good control over different systematic effects. The scaling properties of masses and susceptibilities open the possibility that the effective theory at criticality is a scalar theory in the universality class of the four-dimensional Gaussian model. This behaviour is clearly different from what is observed for SU(2) gauge theory with two dynamical adjoint fermions, whose (near-)conformal numerical signature is hence free from strong-coupling bulk effects. |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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11 |
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106 |