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New Confinement Phases from Singular SCFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-12 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

New types of confining phase emerge when some singular SCFT's appearing as infrared fixed points of N=2 supersymmetric QCD (SQCD) are deformed by an N=1 adjoint mass term. We make further checks on the Gaiotto-Seiberg-Tachikawa (GST) description of these vacua against the symmetry and vacuum counting argument, and show that the GST variables correctly describe these systems, brought into confinement phase by the N=1 perturbation. Several examples of such vacua, USp(2N) and SU(N) theories with four flavors and SO(N) theories with one or two flavors, are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1301.0420,
  title  = {New Confinement Phases from Singular SCFT},
  author = {Simone Giacomelli and Kenichi Konishi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.0420},
  year   = {2015}
}

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22 pages

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