Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2001-04-06
Nucl.Phys.B608:51-102,2001
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
67 pages, harvmac; Typos corrected, section 4.1 reworded
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00253-X
We determine the vacuum structure and phases of N=1 theories obtained via a mass \mu for the adjoint chiral superfield in N=2, SO(n_c) SQCD. For large number of flavors these theories have two groups of vacua. The first exhibits dynamical breaking of flavor symmetry \USp(2n_f) \to U(n_f) and arises as a relevant deformation of a non-trivial superconformal theory. These are in the confined phase. The second group, in an IR-free phase with unbroken flavor symmetry, is produced from a Coulomb branch singularity with Seiberg's dual gauge symmetry. In the large-\mu regime both groups of vacua are well-described by dual quarks and mesons, and dynamical symmetry breaking in the first group occurs via meson condensation. We follow the description of these vacua from weak to strong coupling and demonstrate a nontrivial agreement between the phases and the number of vacua in the two regimes. We construct the semiclassical monopole flavor multiplets and argue that their multiplicity is consistent with the number of N=1 vacua.
Carlino Giuseppe
Konishi Kenichi
Kumar Sreenivasa P.
Murayama Hitoshi
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