Lattice studies of quantum chromodynamics-like theories with many fermionic degrees of freedom

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1946, 2011, Pages 2701-2717

  Degrand, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model physics; Conformal field theory; Lattice gauge theory

Indexed keywords

BEYOND-STANDARD-MODEL PHYSICS; CONFORMAL FIELD THEORIES; FIXED POINTS; GAUGE COUPLINGS; GAUGE THEORY; LATTICE GAUGE THEORY; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; THE STANDARD MODEL;

MECHANICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

GAGES;

EID: 79959972481     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0380     Document Type: Review

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