32nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2014)

Approaching Conformality

23 Jun 2014, 15:15

20m

214 Pupin

Talk Physics Beyond the Standard Model Physics beyond the standard model

Speaker

Mr Tiago Jose Nunes da Silva (University of Groningen)

Description

We discuss our results on the thermal phase transition in color $SU(3)$ QCD with a large number $N_f$ of fundamental fermions using lattice gauge theory. We study the dependence of the critical temperature $T_c$ of the transition and of the coupling at $T_c$ on $N_f$. These results are used to investigate precursory effects of conformality associated with the emergence of a non-trivial fixed point at large $N_f$ and to show how real quark gluon plasma is smoothly connected to a strongly coupled system at zero temperature.

Presentation materials

Slides

Lattice-2014.pdf