Mass Anomalous Dimension at Large N

Abstract

In this work we attempt to determine the mass anomalous dimension of the SU(N) gauge theory with two Dirac fermions in the adjoint representation, in the limit of large N. The method uses the mode number of the Dirac operator, as done in arXiv:1204.4432 for the SU(2) theory in a large volume. Taking advantage of large-N volume reduction we do this on a 2^4 lattice, but we should still get infinite-volume physics in the large-N limit. We find promising initial results, both volume reduction and the mode number method seem to work, but the effective volume of our lattices is probably still too small to reliably determine the mass anomalous dimension at the IRFP, and so results at larger N are required.