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arxiv: 1506.06396 · v4 · submitted 2015-06-21 · ✦ hep-th · hep-lat· hep-ph

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Tiago Nunes da Silva , Elisabetta Pallante , Lasse Robroek
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classification ✦ hep-th hep-lathep-ph
keywords conformaledgegaugelowertheoryagreementargumentsconfining
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We present a lattice study of the phase transitions at zero and nonzero temperature for the $SU(3)$ gauge theory with a varying number of flavours $N_f$ in the fundamental representation of the gauge group. We show that all results are consistent with a lower edge of the conformal window between $N_f=8$ and $N_f=6$. A lower edge in this interval is in remarkable agreement with perturbation theory and recent large-$N$ arguments. .

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