Abstract
We study dynamical supersymmetry breaking in vector-like superconformal \( \mathcal{N} = 1 \) gauge theories. We find appropriate deformations of the superpotential to overcome the problem of the instability of the non supersymmetric vacuum. The request for long lifetime translates into constraints on the physical couplings which in this regime can be controlled through efficient RG analysis.
Article PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
Avoid common mistakes on your manuscript.
References
K.A. Intriligator, N. Seiberg and D. Shih, Dynamical SUSY breaking in meta-stable vacua, JHEP 04 (2006) 021 [hep-th/0602239] [SPIRES].
K.A. Intriligator and N. Seiberg, Lectures on supersymmetry breaking, Class. Quant. Grav. 24 (2007) S741 [hep-ph/0702069] [SPIRES].
N. Seiberg, Electric-magnetic duality in supersymmetric nonAbelian gauge theories, Nucl. Phys. B 435 (1995) 129 [hep-th/9411149] [SPIRES].
K.A. Intriligator and N. Seiberg, Lectures on supersymmetric gauge theories and electric-magnetic duality, Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 45BC (1996) 1 [hep-th/9509066] [SPIRES].
K.I. Izawa, F. Takahashi, T.T. Yanagida and K. Yonekura, Conformal supersymmetry breaking in vector-like gauge theories, Phys. Rev. D 80 (2009) 085017 [arXiv:0905.1764] [SPIRES].
E. Barnes, K.A. Intriligator, B. Wecht and J. Wright, Evidence for the strongest version of the 4d a-theorem, via a-maximization along RG flows, Nucl. Phys. B 702 (2004) 131 [hep-th/0408156] [SPIRES].
T.T. Yanagida and K. Yonekura, Semi-direct gauge mediation in conformal windows of vector-like gauge theories, Phys. Rev. D 81 (2010) 125017 [arXiv:1002.4093] [SPIRES].
N. Arkani-Hamed and H. Murayama, Holomorphy, rescaling anomalies and exact β-functions in supersymmetric gauge theories, JHEP 06 (2000) 030 [hep-th/9707133] [SPIRES].
N. Arkani-Hamed and H. Murayama, Renormalization group invariance of exact results in supersymmetric gauge theories, Phys. Rev. D 57 (1998) 6638 [hep-th/9705189] [SPIRES].
D. Poland and D. Simmons-Duffin, Superconformal flavor simplified, JHEP 05 (2010) 079 [arXiv:0910.4585] [SPIRES].
S. Franco and A.M. . Uranga, Dynamical SUSY breaking at meta-stable minima from D-branes at obstructed geometries, JHEP 06 (2006) 031 [hep-th/0604136] [SPIRES].
A. Amariti, L. Girardello and A. Mariotti, Pseudomoduli dark matter and quiver gauge theories, JHEP 07 (2010) 072 [arXiv:0910.3615] [SPIRES].
M.J. Duncan and L.G. Jensen, Exact tunneling solutions in scalar field theory, Phys. Lett. B 291 (1992) 109 [SPIRES].
K.A. Intriligator and B. Wecht, The exact superconformal R-symmetry maximizes a, Nucl. Phys. B 667 (2003) 183 [hep-th/0304128] [SPIRES].
R. Argurio, M. Bertolini, S. Franco and S. Kachru, Metastable vacua and D-branes at the conifold, JHEP 06 (2007) 017 [hep-th/0703236] [SPIRES].
O. Aharony, S. Kachru and E. Silverstein, Simple stringy dynamical SUSY breaking, Phys. Rev. D 76 (2007) 126009 [arXiv:0708.0493] [SPIRES].
M. Schmaltz and R. Sundrum, Conformal sequestering simplified, JHEP 11 (2006) 011 [hep-th/0608051] [SPIRES].
A.E. Nelson and M.J. Strassler, Exact results for supersymmetric renormalization and the supersymmetric flavor problem, JHEP 07 (2002) 021 [hep-ph/0104051] [SPIRES].
A.E. Nelson and M.J. Strassler, Suppressing flavor anarchy, JHEP 09 (2000) 030 [hep-ph/0006251] [SPIRES].
O. Aharony, L. Berdichevsky, M. Berkooz, Y. Hochberg and D. Robles-Llana, Inverted sparticle hierarchies from natural particle hierarchies, Phys. Rev. D 81 (2010) 085006 [arXiv:1001.0637] [SPIRES].
H. Abe, T. Kobayashi and Y. Omura, Metastable supersymmetry breaking vacua from conformal dynamics, Phys. Rev. D 77 (2008) 065001 [arXiv:0712.2519] [SPIRES].
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Open Access This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0), which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
About this article
Cite this article
Amariti, A., Girardello, L., Mariotti, A. et al. Metastable vacua in superconformal SQCD-like theories. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 92 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2011)092
Received:
Revised:
Accepted:
Published:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2011)092