Approaching Conformality
hep-lat
/ Abstract
We investigate the preconformal region of the phase diagram of SU(3) theories with fundamental flavors. We have simulated SU(3) theories with six and eight fundamental flavors at volumes 32^3 x 64. We use the generated configurations to measure the string tension σand the w0 scale setting quantity extracted from the gradient flow. We show preliminary results on the ratios Tc/\sqrtσ and Tc w0. We compare them to the behavior obtained at smaller Nf and discuss the implications of our results.