Marginal breaking of conformal SUSY QCD

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2016)096MaRDI QIDQ1638940zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kevin F. Cleary, John Terning

Publication date 12 June 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08065

zbMATH Keywords

conformal and W symmetryspontaneous symmetry breakingsupersymmetry and duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: We provide an example of a 4D theory that exhibits the Contino-Pomarol-Rattazzi mechanism, where breaking conformal symmetry by an almost marginal operator leads to a light pseudo-Goldstone boson, the dilaton, and a parametrically suppressed contribution to vacuum energy. We consider SUSY QCD at the edge of the conformal window and break conformal symmetry by weakly gauging a subgroup of the flavor symmetry. Using Seiberg duality we show that for a range of parameters the singlet meson in the dual theory reaches the unitarity bound, however, this theory does not have a stable vacuum. We stabilize the vacuum with soft breaking terms, compute the mass of the dilaton, and determine the range of parameters where the leading contribution to the dilaton mass is from the almost marginal coupling.

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