2009/08/02 by Kei-ichi Nagai, Georgina Carrillo-Ruiz, Maria Georgina Carrillo-Ruiz +2 · 8 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-lat
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.80.074508
published as Phys.Rev.D80:074508,2009 · 15 pages, 11 figures
arxiv created 2009/08/02 · openalex publication_date 2009/10/29 · arxiv updated 2010/04/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We explore aspects of the phase structure of SU(2) and SU(3) lattice gauge theories at strong coupling with many flavors Nf of Wilson fermions in the fundamental representation. The pseudoscalar meson mass as a function of hopping parameter is observed to deviate from the expected analytic dependence, at least for sufficiently large Nf. Implications of this effect are discussed, including the relevance to recent searches for an infrared fixed point.