Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2005-09-12
Nucl.Phys.B730:239-251,2005
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
17 pages. v2: added reference
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.10.005
We present and discuss a conjectured criterion for determining whether a 4d quantum field theory is IR free, or flows to an interacting conformal field theory in the infrared: ``the correct infrared phase is that with the larger conformal anomaly $a$". A stronger conjecture is that ``an operator can become IR free only if that results in a larger conformal anomaly $a$". We test these conjectures in the context of N=1 supersymmetric theories. They are verified to indeed predict the correct IR phase in every tested case, for a plethora of examples for which the infrared phase could already be determined on other grounds. When applied to the still unsettled case of SU(2) with a chiral superfield in the isospin 3/2 representation, the conjecture suggest that the IR phase is conformal rather than confining.
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