Scaling laws near the conformal window of many-flavor QCD

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Braun, Jens ^a   Gies, Holger ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nonperturbative effects; Renormalization Group; Spontaneous symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954963807     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2010)060     Document Type: Article

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