Date:
Tue, 12/11/201310:30-11:30
Location:
White Dove Conference Hall at Neve-Shalom
"Monopoles and confinement in 3d QCD" -
Abstract:
In the presence of a large number of fermion flavors, 3d QCD flows to an interacting CFT in the infrared. In this talk, I will use the 1/N_f expansion to investigate the properties of monopole operators in this CFT. From their scaling dimensions, I will extract estimates for the smallest number of fermion flavors above which the theory does not confine. I will present such estimates for several gauge groups and matter representations.
Abstract:
In the presence of a large number of fermion flavors, 3d QCD flows to an interacting CFT in the infrared. In this talk, I will use the 1/N_f expansion to investigate the properties of monopole operators in this CFT. From their scaling dimensions, I will extract estimates for the smallest number of fermion flavors above which the theory does not confine. I will present such estimates for several gauge groups and matter representations.