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The running coupling of 8 flavors and 3 colors
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- We compute the renormalized running coupling of SU(3) gauge theory coupled to N_f = 8 flavors of massless fundamental Dirac fermions. The recently proposed finite volume gradient flow scheme is used. The calculations are performed at several lattice spacings allowing for a controlled continuum extrapolation. The results for the discrete beta-function show that it is monotonic without any sign of a fixed point in the range of couplings we cover. As a cross check the continuum results are compared with the well-known perturbative continuum beta-function for small values of the renormalized coupling and perfect agreement is found.<br />Comment: 15 pages, 17 figures, published version
- Subjects :
- High Energy Physics - Lattice
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1503.01132
- Document Type :
- Working Paper