Extreme Technicolor & The Walking Critical Temperature

Abstract

We map the phase diagram of gauge theories of fundamental interactions in the flavor-temperature plane using chiral perturbation theory to estimate the relation between the pion decaying constant and the critical temperature above which chiral symmetry is restored. We then investigate the impact of our results on models of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking and therefore on the electroweak early universe phase transition.

RevTeX, 18 pages, 3 figures

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• Chiral phase boundary of QCD at finite temperature
• The physics of eight flavours
• Nearly conformal gauge theories in finite volume
• Spectrum of SU(2) lattice gauge theory with two adjoint Dirac flavours
• Higher representations on the lattice: perturbative studies
• Topology and higher dimensional representations