A Mixed Phase of SUSY Gauge Theories from a-Maximization
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We study N=1 supersymmetric SU(N) gauge theories with an antisymmetric tensor and F flavors using the recent proposal of a-maximization by Intriligator and Wecht. This theory had previously been studied using the method of "deconfinement", but such an analysis was not conclusive since anomalous dimensions in the non-perturbative regime could not be calculated. Using a-maximization we show that for a large range of F the theory is at an interacting superconformal fixed point. However, we also find evidence that for a range of F the theory in the IR splits into a free "magnetic" gauge sector and an interacting superconformal sector.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0403062,
title = {A Mixed Phase of SUSY Gauge Theories from a-Maximization},
author = {Csaba Csaki and Patrick Meade and John Terning},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0403062},
year = {2009}
}
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18 pages, 3 figures