Vanishing Polyakov loop for QCD with twelve massless quarks

We consider continuum-formulation QCD in four dimensions with twelve massless fundamental quark flavors. Splitting the SU(N) gauge field into background and fluctuation parts, we use well-developed techniques to calculate the one-loop effective action for the theory. We find that for constant self-d...

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Main Authors: Seth Grable, Paul Romatschke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-03-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026932500070X
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