scholarly journals Holography of Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories

2022 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 08001
Author(s):  
Nick Evans
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Chiral Symmetry ◽  
Periodic Table ◽  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Chiral Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Higher Dimension ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Strongly Coupled ◽  
Composite Higgs

The "periodic table" of strongly coupled gauge theories remains only sketchily understood. Holography has developed to the point where bottom up constructions can describe the spectrum of individual gauge theories (based on assumptions of their running) including quarks in different representations and higher dimension operators. I highlight the method with a "perfected" version of an AdS dual of QCD and results for composite higgs models with two representations of quarks. The method raises questions about the degree to which energy scales can be split in generic gauge theories including whether confinement and chiral symmetry breaking are linked.

NEARLY CONFORMAL GAUGE THEORIES ON THE LATTICE

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (27n28) ◽  
pp. 5162-5174 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZOLTÁN FODOR ◽  
KIERAN HOLLAND ◽  
JULIUS KUTI ◽  
DÁNIEL NÓGRÁDI ◽  
CHRIS SCHROEDER
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Chiral Symmetry ◽  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Matrix Theory ◽  
Chiral Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Chiral Condensate ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Conformal Window ◽  
Running Coupling ◽  
Conformal Gauge

We present selected new results on chiral symmetry breaking in nearly conformal gauge theories with fermions in the fundamental representation of the SU (3) color gauge group. We found chiral symmetry breaking (χSB) for all flavors between Nf = 4 and Nf = 12 with most of the results discussed here for Nf = 4, 8, 12 as we approach the conformal window. To identify χSB we apply several methods which include, within the framework of chiral perturbation theory, the analysis of the Goldstone spectrum in the p -regime and the spectrum of the fermion Dirac operator with eigenvalue distributions of random matrix theory in the ϵ-regime. Chiral condensate enhancement is observed with increasing Nf when the electroweak symmetry breaking scale F is held fixed in technicolor language. Important finite-volume consistency checks from the theoretical understanding of the SU(Nf) rotator spectrum of the δ-regime are discussed. We also consider these gauge theories at Nf = 16 inside the conformal window. Our work on the running coupling is presented separately.1

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