Anomalous mass dimension of multi-flavor QCD

Understand

Models of strongly interacting theories with a large mass anomalous dimension ($\gamma_m$) provide an interesting possibility for the dynamical origin of the electroweak symmetry breaking.

• A laboratory for these models is QCD with many flavors, which may present a non-trivial fixed point associated to a conformal region.
• Studies based on conformal field theories and on Schwinger-Dyson equations have suggested the existence of bounds on the mass anomalous dimension at the fixed points of these models.
• In this note we discuss $\gamma_m$ values of multi-flavor QCD exhibiting a non-trivial fixed point and affected by relevant four-fermion interactions.