SCGT Forum - Nick Evans



Summary of work on SU(2) gauge theory with Nf=1 adjoint quarks.

Here the two loop results do not have an IR fixed point but a pole so imply chiral symmetry breaking. A lattice study suggest though that the theory remains in the conformal window with γ*=0.72(4):

  • Investigating the conformal behaviour of SU(2) with one adjoint Dirac flavor Andreas Athenodorou, Bennett , Georg Bergner, Biagio Lucini (Mar 18, 2021), e-Print: 2103.10485 [hep-lat]

    Here is a recent talk by Biagio Lucini (May 21, Southampton) on this work:



    Holographic predictions of the spectrum based on the two loop running - read more here :