Dual of QCD with One Adjoint Fermion

TL;DR

This paper constructs a novel non-supersymmetric magnetic dual for QCD with one adjoint fermion, satisfying anomaly conditions and enabling bounds on the fermion mass operator's anomalous dimension within the conformal window.

Contribution

It presents the first nonsupersymmetric dual for any number of colors in this context, with features like flavor decoupling and anomaly matching.

Findings

Dual satisfies 't Hooft anomaly matching

Bounds the anomalous dimension of fermion mass operator

First nonsupersymmetric dual valid for any number of colors

Abstract

We construct the magnetic dual of QCD with one adjoint Weyl fermion. The dual is a consistent solution of the 't Hooft anomaly matching conditions, allows for flavor decoupling and remarkably constitutes the first nonsupersymmetric dual valid for any number of colors. The dual allows to bound the anomalous dimension of the Dirac fermion mass operator to be less than one in the conformal window.