Odinger Functional Scheme Research Articles

Running coupling constant and mass anomalous dimension of six-flavor SU(2) gauge theory

In the exploration of viable models of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking, it is essential to locate the lower end of the conformal window and know the mass anomalous dimensions there for a variety of gauge theories. We calculate, with the Schr\"odinger functional scheme, the running coupling constant and the mass anomalous dimension of SU(2) gauge theory with six massless Dirac fermions in the fundamental representation. The calculations are performed on ${6}^{4}--{24}^{4}$ lattices over a wide range of lattice bare couplings to take the continuum limit. The discretization errors for both quantities are removed perturbatively. We find that the running slows down and comes to a stop at $0.06\ensuremath{\lesssim}1/{g}^{2}\ensuremath{\lesssim}0.15$ where the mass anomalous dimension is estimated to be $0.26\ensuremath{\lesssim}{\ensuremath{\gamma}}_{m}^{*}\ensuremath{\lesssim}0.74$.

Running coupling constant of ten-flavor QCD with the Schrödinger functional method

Walking technicolor theory attempts to realize electroweak symmetry breaking as the spontaneous chiral symmetry breakdown caused by the gauge dynamics with slowly varying gauge coupling constant and large mass anomalous dimension. Many-flavor QCD is one of the candidates owning these features. We focus on the SU(3) gauge theory with ten flavors of massless fermions in the fundamental representation, and compute the gauge coupling constant in the Schr\"odinger functional scheme. Numerical simulation is performed with $O(a)$-unimproved lattice action, and the continuum limit is taken in linear in lattice spacing. We observe evidence that this theory possesses an infrared fixed point.