| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 175, 2018
35th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2017)
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| Article Number | 11010 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | 11 Theoretical Developments | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817511010 | |
| Published online | 26 March 2018 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817511010
Generating a mass gap using Feynman diagrams in an asymptotically free theory
1
Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder CO 80309
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Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham NC 27708
* Speaker (e-mail: sch@phy.duke.edu) This work was supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Nuclear Physics program under Award Number DE-FG02-05ER41368.
Published online: 26 March 2018
Using the example of a two dimensional four-fermion lattice field theory, we show that Feynman diagrams can generate a mass gap in a theory with massless fermions that interact via a marginally relevant coupling. We show this by introducing an infrared cutoff that makes the perturbation series for the partition function convergent. We use a Monte Carlo approach to sample sufficiently high orders of diagrams and thus expose the presence of the mass gap.
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