# The physics of eight flavours

@article{Deuzeman2008ThePO,
title={The physics of eight flavours},
author={Albert Deuzeman and Maria Paola Lombardo and Elisabetta Pallante},
journal={Physics Letters B},
year={2008},
volume={670},
pages={41-48}
}
• Published 2008
• Physics
• Physics Letters B
Abstract We study Quantum Chromodynamics with eight flavours by use of lattice simulations and present evidence that the theory still breaks chiral symmetry in the zero temperature, continuum limit. This confirms that the lower end of the conformal window of QCD lies above N f = 8 .
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