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Studying SU(3) gauge theories with increasing number of light fermions is relevant both for understanding the strong dynamics of QCD and for constructing strongly interacting extensions of the Standard Model (e.g. UV completions of composite Higgs models). In order to contrast these many-flavors strongly interacting theories with QCD, we study the flavor-singlet spectrum as an interesting probe. In fact, some composite Higgs models require the Higgs boson to be the lightest flavor-singlet scalar in the spectrum of a strongly interacting new sector with a well defined hierarchy with the rest of the states. Moreover, introducing many light flavors at fixed number of colors can influence the dynamics of the lightest flavor-singlet pseudoscalar. We present the on-going study of these flavor-singlet channels using multiple interpolating operators on high-statistics ensembles generated by the LatKMI collaboration and we compare results with available data obtained by the Lattice Strong Dynamics collaboration. For the theory with 8 flavors, the two collaborations have generated configurations that complement each others with the aim to tackle the massless limit using the largest possible volumes., contribution to the 35th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2017). Updated references and acknowledgments

SU(3) gauge theory with eight massless flavours is believed to be walking, while the corresponding twelve- and four-flavour appear IR-conformal and confining respectively. Looking at the simulations performed by the LatKMI collaboration of these theories, we use the topological susceptibility as an additional probe of the IR dynamics. By drawing a comparison with SU(3) pure gauge theory, we see a dynamical quenching effect emerge at larger number of flavours, which is suggestive of emerging near-conformal and conformal behaviour., Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures; Proceedings of the 33rd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 14-18, 2015, Kobe, Japan. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1510.05863

LatKMI Collaboration discusses the topological insights in many-flavor QCD on the lattice. We explore walking/conformal/confining phase in [Formula: see text] and 12 (in particular [Formula: see text]) lattice QCD via the topological charge and susceptibility, eigenvalues and anomalous dimension.

We report the latest results of the LatKMI collaboration on 8-flavor QCD using Monte Carlo simulations of the lattice gauge theory. The subject receives growing interest with regards to physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). We show that a flavor-singlet scalar meson (σ) emerges as one of the lightest bound states and can be a composite Higgs boson with mass 125 GeV. The light σ may be a technidilaton, a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson of the approximate scale symmetry, which results from a slowly running (walking) coupling constant associated with an infra-red fixed point. Consistently to this reasoning, a mass anomalous dimension γ is found to be large γ ∼ 1 . We discuss the applicability of 8-flavor QCD to the BSM model building.

In the search for a composite Higgs boson in walking technicolor models, many flavor QCD, in particular with $N_f=8$, is an attractive candidate, and has been found to have a composite flavor-singlet scalar as light as the pion. Based on lattice simulations of this theory with the HISQ action, we will present our preliminary results on the scalar decay constant using the fermionic bilinear operator, and on the mass of the lightest baryon state which could be a dark matter candidate. Combining these two results, implications for dark matter direct detection are also discussed., 7 pages, 3 figures, Contribution to Sakata Memorial KMI Workshop on "Origin of Mass and Strong Coupling Gauge Theories (SCGT15)", 3-6 March 2015, Nagoya University

International audience; LatKMI Collaboration has been studying SU(3) gauge theories with large numbers of fermion flavors, Nf. Here, we report results of lattice simulations for SU(3) gauge theory with four fundamental fermions. We first show fermion mass dependence of Fπ,〈 q¯q 〉 Mπ, Mρ and chiral extrapolations of them, showing the evidence of chiral symmetry breaking. Then, we show preliminary result of the measurement of the mass of the flavor-singlet scalar bound state.

Motivated by recent progress on many flavor QCD on a lattice, we investigate conformal/walking dynamics by using Schwinger-Dyson (SD) equation within an improved ladder approximation for two-loop running coupling. By numerically solving the SD equation, we obtain a pole mass $m_{p}$, pion decay constant $f_{\pi}$, and investigate the chiral symmetry breaking and mass anomalous dimension $\gamma_{m}$ in the presence of IR cutoffs $\Lambda_{\mathrm{IR}}$. We find that the chiral symmetry breaking is suppressed \ if IR cutoff $\Lambda_{\mathrm{IR}}$ becomes larger than the critical \ value near the dynamical mass ($\Lambda_{\mathrm{IR}}$ $\simeq m_{D}$) In the conformal phase the $\gamma_{m}$ is strongly suppressed by IR cutoffs for $\Lambda _{\mathrm{IR}}$ $\simeq m_{p}$. We, then, obtain finite size hyperscaling (FSS) relation by adapting a linearized approximation for the SD equation, and examine the $\gamma_{m}$ The results offer valuable insight and suggestion for analyses in lattice gauge theories., Comment: 5 pages,2 figures; Presented at Sakata Memorial KMI Workshop on "Origin of Mass and Strong Coupling Gauge Theories" (SCGT15)

As a part of the project studying large $N_f$ QCD, the LatKMI Collaboration has been investigating the SU(3) gauge theory with four fundamental fermions (four-flavor QCD). The main purpose of studying four-flavor QCD is to provide a qualitative comparison to $N_f= 8$, $12$, $16$ QCD; however, a quantitative comparison to real-world QCD is also interesting. To make such comparisons more meaningful, it is desirable to use the same kind of lattice action consistently, so that qualitative difference of different theories are less affected by artifacts of lattice discretization. Here, we adopt the highly-improved staggered quark action with the tree-level Symanzik gauge action (HISQ/tree), which is exactly the same as the setup for our simulations for $SU(3)$ gauge theories with $N_f=8$, $12$ and $16$ fundamental fermions~\cite{Aoki:2013xza, Aoki:2012eq, Aoki:2014oma}. In the next section, we show the fermion mass dependence of $F_\pi$, $\langle\bar{\psi}\psi\rangle$, $M_\pi$, $M_\rho$, $M_N$ and their chiral extrapolations. In section 3, preliminary results of the measurement of the mass of the flavor-singlet scalar bound state will be reported., Comment: 7 pages, 9 figures, Proceedings of the 33rd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 14-18, 2015, Kobe, Japan

We present the first observation of a flavor-singlet scalar meson as light as the pion in $N_f=8$ QCD on the lattice, using the Highly Improved Staggered Quark action. Such a light scalar meson can be regarded as a composite Higgs with mass 125 GeV. In accord with our previous lattice results showing that the theory exhibits walking behavior, the light scalar may be a technidilaton, a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson of the approximate scale symmetry in walking technicolor., 5 pages, 3 figures; presentation improved and systematic errors corrected

We study infrared conformality of the twelve-flavor QCD on the lattice. Utilizing the highly improved staggered quarks (HISQ) type action which is useful to study the continuum physics, we analyze the lattice data of the mass and the decay constant of a pseudoscalar meson and the mass of a vector meson as well at several values of lattice spacing and fermion mass. Our result is consistent with the conformal hypothesis for the mass anomalous dimension $\gamma_m \sim 0.4-0.5$., Comment: 38pages, 21figures

It is well known that the SU(3) gauge theory with the fundamental 16-flavor fermion is governed by a non-trivial infrared fixed point in the 2-loop perturbation theory, while the theory has not been well investigated by non-perturbative lattice gauge simulations. We investigate properties of 16-flavor QCD by lattice simulation with highly improved actions(HISQ/tree) at wide range of the lattice spacing. We present the Polyakov loop in the spatial direction at several values of β at fixed lattice size and fermion mass. From the result we find that the finite size effect might be large at β = 12, where the lattice bare coupling is almost same as the coupling at the perturbative fixed point. We discuss the finite-size hyperscaling of the mass of pseudoscalar meson to estimate the mass anomalous dimension γ, while the results might have large finite size effect. It is encouraging that the estimated γ is consistent with the perturbative value, although our estimate has large uncertainty.

We investigate chiral and conformal properties of the lattice QCD with eight flavors (Nf=8) through meson spectrum using the Highly Improved Staggered Quark (HISQ) action. We also compare our results with those of Nf=12 and Nf=4 which we study on the same systematics. We find that the decay constant F_pi of the pseudoscalar meson "pion" is non-zero, with its mass M_pi consistent with zero, both in the chiral limit extrapolation of the chiral perturbation theory (ChPT). We also measure other quantities which we find are in accord with the pi data results: The rho meson mass is consistent with non-zero in the chiral limit, and so is the chiral condensate, with its value neatly coinciding with that from the Gell-Mann-Oakes-Renner relation in the chiral limit. Thus our data for the Nf=8 QCD are consistent with the spontaneously broken chiral symmetry. Remarkably enough, while the Nf=8 data near the chiral limit are well described by the ChPT, those for the relatively large fermion bare mass m_f away from the chiral limit actually exhibit a finite-size hyperscaling relation, suggesting a large anomalous dimension gamma_m ~ 1. This implies that there exists a remnant of the infrared conformality, and suggests that a typical technicolor ("one-family model") as modeled by the Nf=8 QCD can be a walking technicolor theory having an approximate scale invariance with large anomalous dimension gamma_m ~ 1., 26 pages, 28 figures. References added. A version to be published in Phys.Rev.D

The LatKMI collaboration is studying systematically the dynamical properties of N_f = 4,8,12,16 SU(3) gauge theories using lattice simulations with (HISQ) staggered fermions. Exploring the spectrum of many-flavour QCD, and its scaling near the chiral limit, is mandatory in order to establish if one of these models realises the Walking Technicolor scenario. Although lattice technologies to study the mesonic spectrum are well developed, scalar flavour-singlet states still require extra effort to be determined. In addition, gluonic observables usually require large-statistic simulations and powerful noise-reduction techniques. In the following, we present useful spectroscopic methods to investigate scalar glueballs and scalar flavour-singlet mesons, together with the current status of the scalar spectrum in N_f = 12 QCD from the LatKMI collaboration., 9 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. To appear in the Proceedings of SCGT 12, KMI, Nagoya University, Dec. 4-7, 2012

Based on lattice simulations using highly improved staggered quarks for twelve-flavor QCD with several bare fermion masses, we observe a flavor-singlet scalar state lighter than the pion in the correlators of fermionic interpolating operators. The same state is also investigated using correlators of gluonic interpolating operators. Combined with our previous study, that showed twelve-flavor QCD to be consistent with being in the conformal window, we infer that the lightness of the scalar state is due to infrared conformality. This result shed some light on the possibility of a light composite Higgs boson ("technidilaton") in walking technicolor theories., Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. This version contains minor modifications and an updated Table 1. Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

We present the report of the LatKMI collaboration on the lattice QCD simulation for the cases of 4 and 8 flavors. The Nf=8 in particular is interesting from the model-building point of view: The typical walking technicolor model with the large anomalous dimension is the so-called one-family model (Farhi-Susskind model). Thus we explore the walking behavior in LQCD with 8 HISQ quarks by comparing with the 4-flavor case (in which the chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken). We report preliminary results on the spectrum, analyzed through the chiral perturbation theory and the finite-size hyperscaling, and we discuss the availability of the Nf=8 QCD to the phenomenology.

We present recent results on quark confinement: in SU(3) Yang-Mills theory, confinement of fundamental quarks is obtained due to the dual Meissner effect originated from non-Abelian magnetic monopoles defined in a gauge-invariant way, which is distinct from the well-known Abelian projection scenario. This is achieved by using a non-Abelian Stokes theorem for the Wilson loop operator and a new reformulation of the Yang-Mills theory., 5 pages, 3 eps figures. Talk presented at QCD@Work 2012: International Workshop on QCD - Theory and Experiment, June 18-21, Lecce, Italy

Computing Research Center, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba,305-0801, JapanWe present the first report of the LatKMI collaboration on the the lattice QCD simulation per-formed at the KMI computer, “ϕ”, for the cases of 4 flavors and 8 flavors, the latter being ex-pected to be a candidate for the walking technicolor having an approximate scale invariance nearthe infrared fixed point. The simulation was carried out base d on the highly improved staggeredquark (HISQ) action. In this proceedings,we report preliminaryresults on the spectrum, analyzedthrough the chiral perturbation theory and the finite-size hyperscaling. We observe qualitativelydifferent behavior of the 8-flavor case in contrast to the 4-flavor case which shows clear indicationof the hadronic phase as in the usual QCD.The XXIX International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - Lattice 2011July 10-16, 2011Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe, California

We study corrections to the conformal hyperscaling relation in the conformal window of the large Nf QCD by using the ladder Schwinger-Dyson (SD) equation as a concrete dynamical model. From the analytical expression of the solution of the ladder SD equation, we identify the form of the leading mass correction to the hyperscaling relation. We find that the anomalous dimension, when identified through the hyperscaling relation neglecting these corrections, yields a value substantially lower than the one at the fixed point \gamma_m^* for large mass region. We further study finite-volume effects on the hyperscaling relation, based on the ladder SD equation in a finite space-time with the periodic boundary condition. We find that the finite-volume corrections on the hyperscaling relation are negligible compared with the mass correction. The anomalous dimension, when identified through the finite-size hyperscaling relation neglecting the mass corrections as is often done in the lattice analyses, yields almost the same value as that in the case of the infinite space-time neglecting the mass correction, i.e., a substantially lower value than \gamma_m^* for large mass. We also apply the finite-volume SD equation to the chiral-symmetry-breaking phase and find that when the theory is close to the critical point such that the dynamically generated mass is much smaller than the explicit breaking mass, the finite-size hyperscaling relation is still operative. We also suggest a concrete form of the modification of the finite-size hyperscaling relation by including the mass correction, which may be useful to analyze the lattice data., Comment: 17 pages, 9 figures

We study the chiral phase transition of QCD at finite temperature and density by numerically solving Schwinger-Dyson equation for the quark propagator with the improved ladder approximation in the Landau gauge. Using the solution we calculate a pion decay constant from a generalized version of Pagels-Stokar formula. Chiral phase transition point is determined by analyzing an effective potential for the quark propagator. We find solutions for which chiral symmetry is broken while the value of the effective potential is larger than that for the chiral symmetric vacuum. These solutions correspond to meta-stable states, and the chiral symmetric vacuum is energetically favored. We present a phase diagram on the general temperature--chemical potential plane, and show that phase transitions are of first order in wide range., Comment: 23 pages (LaTeX-RevTeX), 14 PostScript figures

We measure glueball masses and the string tension in twelve-flavour QCD, aiming at comparing the emerging gluonic spectrum to the mesonic one. When approaching the critical surface at zero quark mass, the hierarchy of masses in the different sectors of the spectrum gives a new handle to determine the existence of an infrared fixed point. We describe the details of our gluonic measurements and the results obtained on a large number of gauge configurations generated with the HISQ action. In particular, we focus on the scalar glueball and its mixing with a flavour-singlet fermionic state, which is lighter than the pseudoscalar (would-be pion) state. The results are interesting in view of a light composite Higgs boson in walking technicolor theories., 7 pages, 4 figures. Prepared for the 31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory