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Dual formulations of vortex strings in supersymmetric Abelian Higgs model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-09-17 v2

Abstract

We discuss dual formulations of vortex strings (magnetic flux tubes) in the four-dimensional N=1{\cal N} =1 supersymmetric Abelian Higgs model with the Fayet--Iliopoulos term in the superspace formalism. The Lagrangian of the model is dualized into a Lagrangian of the BFBF-type described by a chiral spinor gauge superfield including a 2-form gauge field. The dual Lagrangian is further dualized into a Lagrangian given by a chiral spinor superfield including a massive 2-form field. In both of the dual formulations, we obtain a superfield into which the vortex strings and their superpartners are embedded. We show the dual Lagrangians in terms of a superspace and a component formalism. In these dual Lagrangians, we explicitly show that the vortex strings of the original model are described by a string current electrically coupled with the 2-form gauge field or the massive 2-form field.

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@article{arxiv.1812.11776,
  title  = {Dual formulations of vortex strings in supersymmetric Abelian Higgs model},
  author = {Muneto Nitta and Ryo Yokokura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.11776},
  year   = {2019}
}

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30 pages; v2: references added