Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2010-04-19
Phys. Rev. D 82, 014510 (2010)
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
29 pages, 16 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.82.014510
We study the gauge sector of Minimal Walking Technicolor, which is an SU(2) gauge theory with nf=2 flavors of Wilson fermions in the adjoint representation. Numerical simulations are performed on lattices Nt x Ns^3, with Ns ranging from 8 to 16 and Nt=2Ns, at fixed \beta=2.25, and varying the fermion bare mass m0, so that our numerical results cover the full range of fermion masses from the quenched region to the chiral limit. We present results for the string tension and the glueball spectrum. A comparison of mesonic and gluonic observables leads to the conclusion that the infrared dynamics is given by an SU(2) pure Yang-Mills theory with a typical energy scale for the spectrum sliding to zero with the fermion mass. The typical mesonic mass scale is proportional to, and much larger than this gluonic scale. Our findings are compatible with a scenario in which the massless theory is conformal in the infrared. An analysis of the scaling of the string tension with the fermion mass towards the massless limit allows us to extract the chiral condensate anomalous dimension \gamma*, which is found to be \gamma*=0.22+-0.06.
Debbio Luigi Del
Lucini Biagio
Patella Agostino
Pica Claudio
Rago Antonio
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