Jul 24 – 30, 2016
Highfield Campus, University of Southampton
Europe/London timezone

Effective action for pions and a dilatonic meson - foundations

Jul 25, 2016, 5:05 PM
20m
Building 67 Room 1027 (Highfield Campus, University of Southampton)

Building 67 Room 1027

Highfield Campus, University of Southampton

Highfield Campus, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Talk Physics Beyond the Standard Model Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Speaker

Dr Yigal Shamir (Tel Aviv University)

Description

Recent simulations suggest the existence of a very light singlet scalar in QCD-like theories that may be lying just outside the conformal window. Assuming that the lightness of this scalar can be explained by an approximate dilatation symmetry, we develop an effective field theory framework for both the pions and this light scalar, the "dilatonic meson." We argue that a power counting exists that puts this effective field theory on a systematic footing.

Primary author

Dr Yigal Shamir (Tel Aviv University)

Co-author

Prof. Maarten Golterman (San Francisco State University)

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