Published October 15, 2002
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Journal article
Gauge symmetry breaking through the Hosotani mechanism in softly broken supersymmetric QCD
Creators
- 1. School of Theoretical Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4 (Ireland)
Description
Gauge symmetry breaking through the Hosotani mechanism (the dynamics of nonintegrable phases) in softly broken supersymmetric QCD with NFfd flavors is studied. For N=even, there is a single SU(N) symmetric vacuum state, while for N=odd, there is a doubly degenerate SU(N) symmetric vacuum state in the model. We also study generalized supersymmetric QCD by adding NFadj numbers of massless adjoint matter. The gauge symmetry breaking pattern such as SU(3)→SU(2)xU(1) is possible for appropriate choices of the matter content and values of the supersymmetry breaking parameter. The massless state of the adjoint Higgs scalar is also discussed in the models
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.66.085009;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-th/0205173v2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 66
- Journal Issue
- 8
- Journal Page Range
- p. 085009-085009.10
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 35073526
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- FLAVOR MODEL; GAUGE INVARIANCE; HIGGS MODEL; MASSLESS PARTICLES; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; SCALARS; SU GROUPS; SUPERSYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING; VACUUM STATES
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPOSITE MODELS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUARK MODEL; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2002 The American Physical Society