Published January 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

't Hooft anomaly matching condition and chiral symmetry breaking without bilinear condensate

  • 1. Osaka University, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science (Japan)

Description

We explore 4-dimensional SU(N) gauge theory with a Weyl fermion in an irreducible self-conjugate representation. This theory, in general, has a discrete chiral symmetry. We use 't Hooft anomaly matching condition of the center symmetry and the chiral symmetry, and find constraints on the spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in the confining phase. The domain-walls connecting different vacua are discussed from the point of view of the 't Hooft anomaly. We consider the SU(6) gauge theory with a Weyl fermion in the rank 3 anti-symmetric representation as an example. It is argued that this theory is likely to be in the confining phase. The chiral symmetry 6 should be spontaneously broken to 2 under the assumption of the confinement, although there cannot be any fermion bilinear condensate in this theory.

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Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2019
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 1-13
ISSN
1029-8479

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Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
54068131
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
CHIRAL SYMMETRY; CONDENSATES; FERMIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; STRING THEORY; SYMMETRY BREAKING
Descriptors DEC
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; M-THEORY; SYMMETRY

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