QCD-like technicolor on the lattice

Abstract

This talk gives an overview, aimed at non-experts, of the recent progress on the studies of technicolor models on the lattice. Phenomenologically successful technicolor models require walking coupling; thus, an emphasis is put on the determination of the beta-function of various models. As a case study we consider SU(2) gauge field theory with two adjoint representation fermions, so-called minimal walking technicolor theory.

Comments: 6 pages; talk presented at "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum IX", Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 30 August--3 September 2010