Scaling properties of many-fermion systems from MCRG studies

Abstract

Monte Carlo renormalization group methods were designed to study the phase structure and critical behavior of statistical systems. They are well suited to determine the running coupling and to investigate the properties of fixed points of gauge-fermion models, including the existence of conformal infrared fixed points in many-fermion systems. I discuss the implementation of the 2-lattice matching method and present results for SU(3) gauge theories with N_f=0,12 and 16 fundamental fermion flavors.

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to the "XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory", July 26-31, 2009, Peking University, Beijing, China