Published February 26, 1996
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Journal article
The vacuum structure of N=2 super-QCD with classical gauge groups
Creators
- 1. Rutgers - the State Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY 40506-0055 (United States)
Description
We determine the vacuum structure of N=2 supersymmetric QCD with fundamental quarks for gauge groups SO(n) and Sp(2n), extending prior results for SU(n). The solutions are all given in terms of families of hyperelliptic Riemann surfaces of genus equal to the rank of the gauge group. In the scale-invariant cases, the solutions all have exact S-dualities which act on the couplings by subgroups of PSL(2,Z) and on the masses by outer automorphisms of the flavor symmetry. They are shown to reproduce the complete pattern of symmetry breaking on the Coulomb branch and predict the correct weak-coupling monodromies. Simple breakings with squark vevs provide further consistency checks involving strong-coupling physics. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Physics. B
- Journal Volume
- 461
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 437-459.
- ISSN
- 0550-3213
- CODEN
- NUPBBO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 27032927
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COULOMB FIELD; DUALITY; GAUGE INVARIANCE; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; RIEMANN SPACE; SCALE INVARIANCE; SO GROUPS; SP GROUPS; SU GROUPS; SUPERSYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING; VACUUM STATES
- Descriptors DEC
- ELECTRIC FIELDS; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPACE; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS