Lattice study of infrared behaviour in SU(3) gauge theory with twelve massless flavours

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Lin, C J David ^a,b   Ogawa, Kenji ^a   Ohki, Hiroshi ^c   Shintani, Eigo ^d  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR THEORETICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RIKEN BNL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Lattice gauge field theories; Renormalization group; Technicolor and composite models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865772729     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2012)096     Document Type: Review

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