Broken conformal window
A bstract We show that near the edges of the conformal window of supersymmetric SU( N c ) QCD, perturbed by Anomaly Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking (AMSB), chiral symmetry can be broken depending on the initial conditions of the RG flow. We do so by perturbatively expanding around Banks-Zaks fixed points and taking advantage of Seiberg duality. Interpolating between the edges of the conformal window, we predict that non-supersymmetric QCD breaks chiral symmetry up to N f ≤ 3 N c − 1, while we cannot say anything definitive for N f ≥ 3 N c at this moment.
Authors
- Digvijay Roy Varier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4695-7428)
- Hitoshi Murayama (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5769-9471)
- Dan Kondo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6268-3332)
- Bea Noether
Institutions
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
- University of California System (US)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Published
- 2025-04-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04(2025)152
- Citations
- 7
- Primary Topic
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 13.09
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Office of Science
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- High Energy Physics