a New Conformal Window Bound from the a theorem

2013/03/06 by Oleg Antipin, Antipin, Oleg, Marc Gillioz +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1303.1547

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Abstract

We propose a novel constraint on the gauge dynamics of strongly interacting gauge theories stemming from the a theorem. The inequality we suggest is used to provide a lower bound on the conformal window of four dimensional gauge theories.

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