QCD, Dilaton and Infrared Fixed Points

by Roman Zwicky

Thursday 2 Nov 2023, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/London

I will review the standard conformal window picture and explore the possibility that the chirally broken phase (QCD) is amenable to an (non-perturbative) infrared fixed point interpretation. I will show that these assumptions lead to a consistent picture and comment on N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories. In a second part I will further speculate on the presence of a dilaton, and outline some of its attractive features. 

1) compatibility of conformality with hadron masses 

2) a solution to the Goldstone improvement problem 

3) investigate the dilaton candidate of QCD, the sigma/f0(500) meson

At last I will give an outlook of how the Higgs can be interpreted as a dilaton in this context and what the open problems are.