Topological insights in many-flavor QCD on the lattice

TL;DR

This paper investigates the topological properties of many-flavor QCD on the lattice, analyzing phases and topological features for different flavor numbers to understand their role in strong interaction dynamics.

Contribution

It provides new lattice QCD insights into topological aspects across multiple flavor regimes, especially focusing on Nf=8, using topological charge, susceptibility, eigenvalues, and anomalous dimension.

Findings

Identifies phase behavior in Nf=4, 8, 12 QCD.

Analyzes topological charge and susceptibility across flavors.

Provides insights into the conformal and confining phases.

Abstract

LatKMI Collaboration discusses the topological insights in many-flavor QCD on the lattice. We explore walking/conformal/confining phase in $N_\mathrm{f}$ = 4, 8 and 12 (in particular $N_\mathrm{f}$ = 8) lattice QCD via the topological charge and susceptibility, eigenvalues and anomalous dimension.