title: Infrared fixed point of the 12-fermion SU(3) gauge model based on 2-lattice Monte Carlo renomalization-group matching.
abstract: I investigate an SU(3) gauge model with 12 fundamental fermions. The physically interesting region of this strongly coupled system can be influenced by an ultraviolet fixed point due to lattice artifacts. I suggest to use a gauge action with an additional negative adjoint plaquette term that lessens this problem. I also introduce a new analysis method for the 2-lattice matching Monte Carlo renormalization group technique that significantly reduces finite volume effects. The combination of these two improvements allows me to measure the bare step scaling function in a region of the gauge coupling where it is clearly negative, indicating a positive renormalization group β function and infrared conformality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-390, USA. anna@eotvos.colorado.edu
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hasenfratz