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On non-supersymmetric fixed points in five dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-10-26 v3

Abstract

We generalize recent results regarding the phase space of the mass deformed E1E_1 fixed point to a full class of five-dimensional superconformal field theories, known as X1,NX_{1,N}. As in the E1E_1 case, a phase transition occurs as a supersymmetry preserving and a supersymmetry breaking mass deformations are appropriately tuned. The order of such phase transition could not be unequivocally determined in the E1E_1 case. For X1,NX_{1,N} instead, we can show that at large NN there exists a regime where the phase transition is second order. Our findings give supporting evidence for the existence of non-supersymmetric fixed points in five dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.2207.11162,
  title  = {On non-supersymmetric fixed points in five dimensions},
  author = {Matteo Bertolini and Francesco Mignosa and Jesse van Muiden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.11162},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

32 pages, several figures; v3: typos corrected

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