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We study the set of models in which the Standard Model symmetry is extended with the flavour group A4 and there are three copies of the Standard Model Higgs that transform as a triplet under this group. In this setup, new channels for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-07 Reinier de Adelhart Toorop , Federica Bazzocchi , Luca Merlo , Alessio Paris

The heaviness of the third family fermions and the experimental absence of large flavor violating processes suggest, in supersymmetric theories, that the three families belong to a $2+1$ representation of a horizontal symmetry $G_H$. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Alex Pomarol , Daniele Tommasini

The relation between the partition function of N=2 gauge theories in 4d and conformal Toda field theory in 2d is explained for the case where the 4d theory is a linear quiver with "quiver tails". That is when the 4d theory has gauge groups…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-13 Nadav Drukker , Filippo Passerini

We revisit 6d (2,0) SCFTs of type $D_N$ and their realization in M-theory, focusing on absolute variants of these theories and on their global finite 0- and 2-form symmetries. We derive the 7d SymTFT capturing these global symmetries from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-12 Federico Bonetti , Michele Del Zotto , Ruben Minasian

We study 3D $N=2$ supersymmetric field theories geometrically engineered from M-theory on non-compact Calabi-Yau fourfolds (CY4). We establish a detailed dictionary between the geometry and topology of non-compact CY4 and the physics of 3D…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-27 Marwan Najjar , Jiahua Tian , Yi-Nan Wang

Based on the Decay and Fission Conjecture, we provide a classification of unitary quivers whose 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ Coulomb branches exhibit isolated singularities. This yields the complete list of isolated conical symplectic singularities…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-09 Antoine Bourget , Quentin Lamouret , Sinan Moura Soysüren , Marcus Sperling

We continue to investigate the $\mathcal{N}=1$ deformations of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) labeled by a nilpotent element of the flavor symmetry. This triggers a renormalization group (RG) flow to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Prarit Agarwal , Kazunobu Maruyoshi , Jaewon Song

Argyres and co-workers started a program to classify all 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ QFT by classifying Special Geometries with appropriate properties. They completed the program in rank-1. Rank-1 $\mathcal{N}=2$ QFT are equivalently classified by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Matteo Caorsi , Sergio Cecotti

We classify orbifold geometries which can be interpreted as moduli spaces of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}\geq 3$ superconformal field theories up to rank 2 (complex dimension 6). The large majority of the geometries we find correspond to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-09 Philip C. Argyres , Antoine Bourget , Mario Martone

We study duality defects in 2+1d theories with $\bZ^{(0)}_N\times\bZ^{(1)}_N$ global symmetry and trivial mixed 't Hooft anomaly. By gauging these symmetries simultaneously in half of the spacetime, we define duality defects for theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-02 Wei Cui , Babak Haghighat , Lorenzo Ruggeri

We study 4d SCFTs obtained by orientifold projections on necklace quivers with fractional branes. The models obtained by this procedure are $\mathcal{N}=1$ linear quivers with unitary, symplectic and orthogonal gauge groups, bifundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-09 Antonio Amariti , Marco Fazzi , Simone Rota , Alessia Segati

We introduce a family of 3d $\mathcal{N} = 4$ superconformal field theories that have zero-dimensional Coulomb and Higgs branches and propose that the rational vertex operator algebras $W^{\text{min}}_{k -…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-10 Thomas Creutzig , Niklas Garner , Heeyeon Kim

In the present paper we study SU(N)->S(U(N/2)xU(N/2)) symmetry breaking in N=4 SYM via AdS/CFT correspondence. We consider two stacks of N/2 parallel D3 branes separated by a distance 2\vec d. In this case there is mixing between the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 R. C. Rashkov , K. S. Viswanathan

We test the AdS/CFT correspondence in the case of a d=4 N=2 SCFT by comparing chiral anomalies which are of order N in the 't Hooft large N limit. These include corrections of order 1/N to the conformal anomaly, thus testing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Ofer Aharony , Jacek Pawelczyk , Stefan Theisen , Shimon Yankielowicz

We study the compactification of 5d SCFTs to 4d on a circle with a twist in a discrete global symmetry element of these SCFTs. We present evidence that this leads to various 4d N=2 isolated SCFTs. These include many known theories as well…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-25 Gabi Zafrir

Associated varieties of vertex algebras are analogue of the associated varieties of primitive ideals of the universal enveloping algebras of semisimple Lie algebras. They not only capture some of the important properties of vertex algebras…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Tomoyuki Arakawa

We analyse how $U(3)^5$ and $U(2)^5$ flavour symmetries act on the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, providing an organising principle to classify the large number of dimension-six operators involving fermion fields. A detailed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 Darius A. Faroughy , Gino Isidori , Felix Wilsch , Kei Yamamoto

In this paper, we investigate the twisted $A_{2n}$ sector of class-S theories. Heretofore, the Coulomb branches of such theories have been poorly understood. In this, and a companion paper, we make progress in our understanding of them. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-27 Jacques Distler , Grant Elliot

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

We list 4d interacting $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFT with minimal flavor central charge from the theory space constructed using 6d $(2,0)$ theory. For $ADE$ and $C_N$ flavor groups, our theory saturates the bound found using bootstrap method, but…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-12 Dan Xie