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Confinement via strongly-coupled non-Abelian monopoles

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-08-23 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

New types of confinement phase emerge as singular SCFT's appearing as infrared-fixed-points of N=2 supersymmetric QCD (SQCD) are perturbed by an N=1 adjoint mass term. Based on a recent remarkable work on infrared-fixed-point SCFT of highest criticalities by Gaiotto, Seiberg and Tachikawa, we discuss physics of certain confining systems in SU(N), USp(2N) or SO(N) gauge theories. These show features different from a straightforward dual superconductivity picture of confinement a' la 't Hooft and Mandelstam, which might suggest a new venue in exploring the quark confinement mechanism in the real-world QCD.

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@article{arxiv.1302.6063,
  title  = {Confinement via strongly-coupled non-Abelian monopoles},
  author = {Kenichi Konishi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.6063},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Latex 17 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1301.0420

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