SCGT Forum - Nick Evans



Summary of work on SU(2) gauge theory with Nf=3/2 adjoint quarks.

Two loop analysis suggests a fixed point of γ*=2.14 which would be expected to cause chiral symmetry breaking.

A lattice analysis places the theory in the conformal window though with γ*=0.36(5):

  • Measurement of the mass anomalous dimension of near-conformal adjoint QCD with the gradient flow Camilo Lopez, Georg Bergner, Istvan Montvay, Stefano Piemonte (Nov 5, 2020), e-Print: 2011.02815 [hep-lat]

    Holographic predictions of the spectrum based on the two loop chiral symmetry breaking - read more here :