Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking from Meta-stable Vacua in an N=1 Supersymmetric Gauge Theory

Claus Montonen; Masato Arai; Nobuchika Okada; Shin Sasaki

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Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking from Meta-stable Vacua in an N=1 Supersymmetric Gauge Theory

Masato Arai, Claus Montonen, Nobuchika Okada, Shin Sasaki

High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 27 Dec 2007

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The authors' main claim We find that supersymmetry on the Coulomb branch is dynamically broken as a consequence of the strong dynamics of SU(2) gauge symmetry while the supersymmetric vacuum on the Higgs branch remains.

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CitationClaus Montonen, Masato Arai, Nobuchika Okada, Shin Sasaki. "Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking from Meta-stable Vacua in an N=1 Supersymmetric Gauge Theory." arXiv:0712.4252 (2007). https://pith.science/paper/BOY6SPVW

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We investigate supersymmetry breaking meta-stable vacua in N=2, SU(2)\times U(1) gauge theory with N_f=2 massless flavors perturbed by the addition of small N=1 preserving mass terms in a presence of a Fayet-Iliopoulos term. We derive the low energy effective theory by using the exact results of N=2 supersymmetric QCD and examine the effective potential. At the classical level, the theory has supersymmetric vacua on Coulomb and Higgs branches. We find that supersymmetry on the Coulomb branch is dynamically broken as a consequence of the strong dynamics of SU(2) gauge symmetry while the supersymmetric vacuum on the Higgs branch remains. We also estimate the lifetimes of the local minima on the Coulomb branch. We find that they are sufficiently long and therefore the local vacua we find are meta-stable.

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We investigate supersymmetry breaking meta-stable vacua in N=2, SU(2)\times U(1) gauge theory with N_f=2 massless flavors perturbed by the addition of small N=1 preserving mass terms in a presence of a Fayet-Iliopoulos term. We derive the low energy effective theory by using the exact results of N=2 supersymmetric QCD and examine the effective potential. At the classical level, the theory has supersymmetric vacua on Coulomb and Higgs branches. We find that supersymmetry on the Coulomb branch is dynamically broken as a consequence of the strong dynamics of SU(2) gauge symmetry while the supersymmetric vacuum on the Higgs branch remains. We also estimate the lifetimes of the local minima on the Coulomb branch. We find that they are sufficiently long and therefore the local vacua we find are meta-stable.

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This is very similar to the SUSY breaking mechanism discussed in the Izawa-Yanagida-Intriligator-Thomas model in $N=1$ SUSY gauge theory [ref] .

Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking in Vector-like Gauge Theories · Numerical calculation · 1.00
This is very similar to the SUSY breaking mechanism discussed in the Izawa-Yanagida-Intriligator-Thomas model in $N=1$ SUSY gauge theory [ref] .

Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking on Quantum Moduli Spaces · Numerical calculation · 1.00
Apart from the obvious difference that in this paper we start from a Lagrangian without extended SUSY, the pattern of vacuum states shows interesting differences: In [ref] , the theory has SUSY vacua only on the Higgs branch while on the Coulomb branch the potential has pseudo flat directions at the classical level.

Meta-stable Vacuum in Spontaneously Broken N=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theory · Conclusion and discussion · 1.00

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This situation is changed for $N=1$ SUSY QCD with $N_c$ colors and $N_c + 1 ≤N_f <3/2 N_c$ flavors [ref] .

Dynamical SUSY Breaking in Meta-Stable Vacua · Introduction · 0.81
There has been much progress in understanding the gauge dynamics of strongly coupled $N=1$ SUSY field theory with $N_c$ color and $N_f≤N_c+1$ flavors [ref] .

Naturalness Versus Supersymmetric Non-renormalization Theorems · Introduction · 1.00
There has been much progress in understanding the gauge dynamics of strongly coupled $N=1$ SUSY field theory with $N_c$ color and $N_f≤N_c+1$ flavors [ref] .

Exact Results on the Space of Vacua of Four Dimensional SUSY Gauge Theories · Introduction · 1.00

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