INVESTIGADORES
TORROBA Gonzalo
artículos
Título:
New dynamics and dualities in supersymmetric chiral gauge theories
Autor/es:
NATHANIEL CRAIG; ROUVEN ESSIG; ANSON HOOK; GONZALO TORROBA
Revista:
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS - (Online)
Editorial:
Springer-Verlag
Referencias:
Año: 2011 vol. 2011 p. 1 - 34
ISSN:
1029-8479
Resumen:
We analyze the phase structure of supersymmetric chiral gauge theories with gauge group SU(N), an antisymmetric, and F less than N+4 flavors, in the presence of a cubic superpotential. When F=N+3 the theory flows to a superconformal fixed point in the infrared, and new dual descriptions of this theory are uncovered. The theory with odd N admits a self-dual magnetic description. For general N, we find an infinite family of magnetic dual descriptions, characterized by arbitrarily large gauge groups and additional classical global symmetries that are truncated by nonperturbative effects. The infrared dynamics of these theories are analyzed using a-maximization, which supports the claim that all these theories flow to the same superconformal fixed point. A very rich phase structure is found when the number of flavors is reduced below N+3, including a new self-dual point, transitions from conformal to confining, and a nonperturbative instability for F less than N+1. We also give examples of chiral theories with antisymmetrics that have nonchiral duals.