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Sp (4) gauge theories on the lattice: Nf = 2 dynamical fundamental fermions

Ed Bennett Orcid Logo, Deog Ki Hong, Jong-Wan Lee, C.-J. David Lin, Biagio Lucini Orcid Logo, Maurizio Piai Orcid Logo, Davide Vadacchino

Journal of High Energy Physics, Volume: 2019, Issue: 12

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

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Abstract

We perform lattice studies of the gauge theory with Sp(4) gauge group and two flavours of (Dirac) fundamental matter. The global SU(4) symmetry is spontaneously broken by the fermion condensate. The dynamical Wilson fermions in the lattice action introduce a mass that breaks the global symmetry also...

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Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics
ISSN: 1029-8479
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2019
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52872
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Abstract: We perform lattice studies of the gauge theory with Sp(4) gauge group and two flavours of (Dirac) fundamental matter. The global SU(4) symmetry is spontaneously broken by the fermion condensate. The dynamical Wilson fermions in the lattice action introduce a mass that breaks the global symmetry also explicitly. The resulting pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons describe the SU(4)/Sp(4) coset, and are relevant, in the context of physics beyond the Standard Model, for composite Higgs models. We discuss scale setting, continuum extrapolation and finite volume effects in the lattice theory. We study mesonic composite states, which span representations of the unbroken Sp(4) global symmetry, and we measure masses and decay constants of the (flavoured) spin-0 and spin-1 states accessible to the numerical treatment, as a function of the fermion mass. With help from the effective field theory treatment of such mesons, we perform a first extrapolation towards the massless limit. We assess our results by critically comparing to the literature on other models and to the quenched results, and we conclude by outlining future avenues for further exploration. The results of our spectroscopic analysis provide new input data for future phenomenological studies in the contexts of composite Higgs models, and of dark matter models with a strongly coupled dynamical origin.
Keywords: Lattice quantum field theory, technicolor and composite models, beyond standard model
College: Professional Services
Funders: UKRI, EC, Royal Society, ERDF, National Research Foundation of Korea, Ministry of Education of Korea, Ministry of Science of Korea, MoST (Taiwan)
Issue: 12