Chiral symmetry of QCD with twelve light flavors

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We study QCD with twelve light flavors at intermediate values of the bare lattice coupling.

• We contrast the results for the order parameter with different theoretical models motivated by the physics of the Goldstone phase and of the symmetric phase, and we perform a model independent analysis of the meson spectrum inspired by universal properties of chiral symmetry.
• Our analysis favors chiral symmetry restoration.