An ideal toy model for confining, walking and conformal gauge theories: the 0(3) sigma model with υ-term

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Nógrádi, Dániel ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Lattice gauge field theories; Sigma models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861846785     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2012)089     Document Type: Article

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