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Landscape of Simple Superconformal Field Theories in 4d

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-04-03 v3

Abstract

We explore the space of renormalization group flows that originate from N=1\mathcal{N}=1 supersymmetric SU(2)SU(2) gauge theory with one adjoint and a pair of fundamental chiral multiplets. By considering all possible relevant deformations - including coupling to gauge-singlet chiral multiplets - we find 34 fixed points in this simple setup. We observe that theories in this class exhibit many novel phenomena: emergent symmetry, decoupling of operators, and narrow distribution of central charges a/ca/c. This set of theories includes two of the N=2\mathcal{N}=2 minimal Argyres-Douglas theories and their mass deformed versions. In addition, we find 36 candidate fixed point theories possessing unphysical fermionic operators -including one with central charges (a,c)(0.20,0.22)(a, c)\simeq (0.20, 0.22) that are smaller than any known superconformal theory -that need further investigation.

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@article{arxiv.1806.08353,
  title  = {Landscape of Simple Superconformal Field Theories in 4d},
  author = {Kazunobu Maruyoshi and Emily Nardoni and Jaewon Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.08353},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

5+5 pages, 2 figures, v3: minor changes including the abstract, version to appear in PRL