Phases of Wilson lines: conformality and screening

Abstract We study the rich dynamics resulting from introducing static charged particles (Wilson lines) in 2+1 and 3+1 dimensional gauge theories. Depending on the charges of the external particles, there may be multiple defect fixed points with interesting renormalization group flows connecting them...

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Main Authors: Ofer Aharony, Gabriel Cuomo, Zohar Komargodski, Márk Mezei, Avia Raviv-Moshe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2023-12-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2023)183