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Compactifications of 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) on four-manifolds generate a large class of novel 2d quantum field theories. We consider in detail the case of the rank one simple non-Higgsable cluster 6D SCFTs. On the tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 Fabio Apruzzi , Falk Hassler , Jonathan J. Heckman , Ilarion V. Melnikov

We detail the Higgs branches of 6d $(1,0)$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) and little string theories (LSTs) that exhibit supersymmetry-enhancing Higgs branch renormalization group flows to the 6d $(2,0)$ SCFTs and LSTs of type DE.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-06 Craig Lawrie , Lorenzo Mansi

We characterize the global symmetries for the conjecturally complete collection of six dimensional superconformal field theories (6D SCFTs) which are realizable in F-theory and have no frozen singularities. We provide comprehensive checks…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-03 Peter R. Merkx

With the eventual aim of classifying renormalization group flows between 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs), we study flows generated by the vevs of "conformal matter," a generalization of conventional hypermultiplets which naturally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Jonathan J. Heckman , Tom Rudelius , Alessandro Tomasiello

We show that the non-gravitational sectors of certain 6d and 5d supergravity theories can be decomposed into superconformal field theories (SCFTs) which are coupled together by pairwise identifying and gauging mutual global symmetries. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-02 Hirotaka Hayashi , Patrick Jefferson , Hee-Cheol Kim , Kantaro Ohmori , Cumrun Vafa

In arXiv:1906.11820 and arXiv:1907.05404 we proposed an approach based on graphs to characterize 5d superconformal field theories (SCFTs), which arise as compactifications of 6d $\mathcal{N}= (1,0)$ SCFTs. The graphs, so-called combined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-17 Fabio Apruzzi , Craig Lawrie , Ling Lin , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Yi-Nan Wang

We classify six-dimensional F-theory compactifications in terms of simple features of the divisor structure of the base surface of the elliptic fibration. This structure controls the minimal spectrum of the theory. We determine all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 David R. Morrison , Washington Taylor

Making use of the exact solutions of the $N=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories we construct new classes of superconformal field theories (SCFTs) by fine-tuning the moduli parameters and bringing the theories to critical points. In the case of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Tohru Eguchi , Kentaro Hori

A single M5-brane probing G, an ADE-type singularity, leads to a system which has G x G global symmetry and can be viewed as "bifundamental" (G,G) matter. For the A_N series, this leads to the usual notion of bifundamental matter. For the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Michele Del Zotto , Jonathan J. Heckman , Alessandro Tomasiello , Cumrun Vafa

We study renormalization group flows between six-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs) using their geometric realizations as singular limits of F-theory compactified on elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds. There are two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-27 Jonathan J. Heckman , David R. Morrison , Tom Rudelius , Cumrun Vafa

We show that all known 6D SCFTs can be obtained iteratively from an underlying set of UV progenitor theories through the processes of "fission" and "fusion." Fission consists of a tensor branch deformation followed by a special class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Jonathan J. Heckman , Tom Rudelius , Alessandro Tomasiello

In this note, we discuss families of orbifolds underlying 6D SCFT F-theory models and find a novel pairing structure in the SCFT landscape. Inspection of the rational functions defining models with a common F-theory endpoint leads us to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-24 Peter R. Merkx

The classification of one parameter local Coulomb branch solution of theories with eight supercharges is given by assuming that it is given by a genus $g$ fiberation of Riemann surfaces. The crucial point is the fact that certain conjugacy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-27 Dan Xie

We present evidence for a new class of strongly coupled N = 1 superconformal field theories (SCFTs) motivated by F-theory GUT constructions. These SCFTs arise from D3-brane probes of tilted seven-branes which undergo monodromy. In the probe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-08 Jonathan J. Heckman , Yuji Tachikawa , Cumrun Vafa , Brian Wecht

We present a general prescription for determining the global U(1) symmetries of six-dimensional superconformal field theories (6D SCFTs). We use the quiver-like gauge theory description of the tensor branch to identify candidate U(1)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-29 Fabio Apruzzi , Marco Fazzi , Jonathan J. Heckman , Tom Rudelius , Hao Y. Zhang

We extend the investigation of the recently introduced class ${\cal S}_k$ of 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ SCFTs, by considering a large family of quiver gauge theories within it, which we denote $\mathcal{S}^1_k$. These theories admit a realization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-12 Sebastian Franco , Hirotaka Hayashi , Angel Uranga

There are two major ways of constructing 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs): the first one is putting a 6d $(2,0)$ theory on a punctured Riemann surface (class-S theory), and the second one is putting type IIB string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-31 Bohan Li , Dan Xie , Wenbin Yan

We describe a procedure for classifying N=2 superconformal theories of the type introduced by Davide Gaiotto. Any curve, C, on which the 6D A_{N-1} SCFT is compactified, can be decomposed into 3-punctured spheres, connected by cylinders. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-26 Oscar Chacaltana , Jacques Distler

We propose a graph-theoretic description to determine and characterize 5d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) that arise as circle reductions of 6d $\mathcal{N} = (1,0)$ SCFTs. Each 5d SCFT is captured by a graph, called a Combined Fiber…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Fabio Apruzzi , Craig Lawrie , Ling Lin , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Yi-Nan Wang

We study how to couple a 6D superconformal field theory (SCFT) to gravity. In F-theory, the models in question are obtained working on the supersymmetric background R^{5,1} x B where B is the base of a compact elliptically fibered…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-23 Michele Del Zotto , Jonathan J. Heckman , David R. Morrison , Daniel S. Park