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Circumnavigating Collinear Superspace

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-03-25 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In this paper, we extend the collinear superspace formalism to include the full range of N=1\mathcal{N} = 1 supersymmetric interactions. Building on the effective field theory rules developed in a companion paper - "Navigating Collinear Superspace" - we construct collinear superspace Lagrangians for theories with non-trivial FF- and DD-term auxiliary fields. For (massless) Wess-Zumino models, the key ingredient is a novel type of Grassmann-valued supermultiplet whose lowest component is a (non-propagating) fermionic degree of freedom. For gauge theories coupled to charged chiral matter, the key ingredient is a novel type of vector superfield whose lowest component is a non-propagating gauge potential. This unique vector superfield is used to construct a gauge-covariant derivative; while such an object does not appear in the standard full superspace formalism, it is crucial for modeling gauge interactions when the theory is expressed on a collinear slice. This brings us full circle, by showing that all types of N=1\mathcal{N} = 1 theories in four dimensions can be constructed in collinear superspace from purely infrared considerations. We speculate that supersymmetric theories with N>1\mathcal{N} > 1 could also be implemented using similar collinear superspace constructions.

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@article{arxiv.1909.00009,
  title  = {Circumnavigating Collinear Superspace},
  author = {Timothy Cohen and Gilly Elor and Andrew J. Larkoski and Jesse Thaler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.00009},
  year   = {2020}
}

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51 pages plus appendix, 7 tables. v3 Published version

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