16 papers
Dilatonic states, phase transitions, and criticality in holography
Daniel Elander, Maurizio Piai
The dilaton is the hypothetical scalar particle associated with spontaneous breaking of approximate scale invariance. It has been predicted to arise dynamically, as a bound state,…
Dilaton Effective Field Theory across the Conformal Edge
Thomas Appelquist, James Ingoldby, Maurizio Piai
Dilaton effective field theory (dEFT) can be employed to analyze lattice data in gauge theories that lie in close proximity of the lower edge of the conformal window. Under special…
Resonant scattering in two-flavored Sp(4) lattice gauge theories
Ed Bennett, Yannick Dengler, Deog Ki Hong +8
We apply Lüscher's method to the vector channel of the scattering amplitude of Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone-Bosons (PNGBs), in the lattice gauge theory coupled to flavor…
Light dilaton from top-down holographic confinement with magnetic fluxes
Maurizio Piai, James Rucinski
A two-parameter class of higher-dimensional, strongly coupled, confining field theories in the presence of magnetic fluxes for two Abelian gauge groups admits a top-down, holograph…
Bound states and deconfinement from Romans supergravity with magnetic flux
Ali Fatemiabhari, Maurizio Piai
We apply the dictionary of gauge-gravity dualities to study the spectrum of bound states in a special one-parameter family of strongly coupled, confining field theories in four dim…
Finite-temperature Yang-Mills theories with the density of states method: towards the continuum limit
Ed Bennett, Biagio Lucini, David Mason +4
A first-order, confinement/deconfinement phase transition appears in the finite temperature behavior of many non-Abelian gauge theories. These theories play an important role in pr…