A possible phase for adjoint QCD

Understand

We discuss an exotic phase that adjoint QCD possibly exhibits in the deep infrared (IR).

• It is a confining phase, with a light spectrum consisting of massless composite fermions.
• The discrete chiral symmetry is broken, with unbroken continuous chiral symmetry.
• We argue that it may give a description of the IR of adjoint QCD with three massless Weyl flavors and that it passes all consistency checks known to us.