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Lessons from supersymmetry: "Instead-of-Confinement" Mechanism

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Thursday, January 08, 2015
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Alexei Yung (Univ. of Minnesota)
Triangle Nuclear Theory Colloquium

I review physical scenarios in different vacua of N=2 supersymmetric QCD deformed by the mass term for the adjoint matter. I focus on dynamical scenarios which can serve as a prototypes of what we observe in the real world QCD. The above mentioned deformation breaks supersymmetry down to N=1 and at large deformations the theory flows to a ''more realistic'' theory: N=1 supersymmetric QCD. It turns out that the standard Seiberg-Witten scenario of quark confinement does not survive the N=1 deformation. However, the different phase which we call "instead-of-confinement" phase appears to be more promising.

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