The physics of eight flavours
Abstract
We study Quantum Chromodynamics with eight flavours by use of lattice simulations and present evidence that the theory still breaks chiral symmetry in the zero temperature, continuum limit. This confirms that the lower end of the conformal window of QCD lies above Nf = 8.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters B
- Pub Date:
- December 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2008.10.039
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0804.2905
- Bibcode:
- 2008PhLB..670...41D
- Keywords:
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- Gauge theories;
- Many flavours;
- Phase transitions;
- Conformal phase;
- 12.38.Gc;
- 11.15.Ha;
- 12.38.Mh;
- Lattice QCD calculations;
- Lattice gauge theory;
- Quark-gluon plasma;
- High Energy Physics - Lattice;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 19 pages, 7 figures
