TH BSM Forum

# Confinement and Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Near-SUSY Theories

## by Ofri Telem (UC Berkeley)

Europe/Zurich
4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

### 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

#### CERN

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Description

The study of non-supersymmetric, strongly coupled gauge theories is notoriously hard, and exact results are scarce. In this talk, I present a new way to study the vacua of near-supersymmetric theories by perturbing their supersymmetric versions with Anomaly Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking (AMSB). Thanks to the UV-insensitivity of AMSB, SUSY results can be perturbed with no ambiguities, even when applied to composite fields. Using our method, we analyze the phases of $SO(N)$ gauge theory with flavors. The abelian Coulomb and free magnetic phases do not survive supersymmetry breaking and collapse to a confining phase, providing one of the first demonstrations of true confinement with chiral symmetry breaking in a non-supersymmetric vacuum. Our results are exact in the small SUSY breaking limit, and we briefly discuss the prospects of extrapolating them to large SUSY breaking.

Videoconference
BSM Forum
Zoom Meeting ID
65562333965
Host
Elena Gianolio
Alternative hosts
Matthew Philip Mccullough, Daniele Teresi, Joachim Kopp, Benoit Loyer, Nicholas Llewellyn Rodd
Passcode
01055539