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Some Exact Results in QCD-like Theories

Authors :
Hitoshi Murayama
Source :
Physical Review Letters, Physical review letters, vol 126, iss 25
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
APS, 2021.

Abstract

I propose a controlled approximation to QCD-like theories with massless quarks by employing supersymmetric QCD perturbed by anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking. They have identical massless particle contents. Thanks to the ultraviolet-insensitivity of anomaly mediation, dynamics can be worked out exactly when $m \ll \Lambda$, where $m$ is the size of supersymmetry breaking and $\Lambda$ the dynamical scale of the gauge theory. I demonstrate that chiral symmetry is dynamically broken for $N_{f} \leq \frac{3}{2} N_{c}$ while the theories lead to non-trivial infrared fixed points for larger number of flavors. While there may be a phase transition as $m$ is increased beyond $\Lambda$, qualitative agreements with expectations in QCD are encouraging and suggest that two limits $m \ll \Lambda$ and $m \gg \Lambda$ may be in the same universality class.<br />Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures. Argument strengthened with Naive Dimensional Analysis. A reference added. Several typos fixed. Version accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physical Review Letters
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....44f088de362777a59d4ed99ff1eda78a