25 July 2007 to 1 August 2007
Karlsruhe University
Europe/Zurich timezone

Local SUSY-breaking minima in N_f=N_c SCQD?

31 Jul 2007, 14:00
20m
Jordan Auditorium (Karlsruhe University)

Jordan Auditorium

Karlsruhe University

Wolfgang-Gaede-Str. 1 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
Parallel Talk Theoretical Models (String Theory and Formal Aspects of SUSY) Theoretical Models (String Theory and Formal Aspects of SUSY) 6

Speaker

Mr Andrey Katz (Technion- Israel Institute of Technology)

Description

We revisit N_f=N_c SQCD and its non-supersymmetric minima conjectured by Intriligator, Seiberg and Shih . We argue that the existence of such minima depends on the signs of three non-calculable parameters and that no evidence can be inferred by deforming the theory. We demonstrate this by studying a different deformation of the theory which involves additional gauge singlets. We show that in this case the conjectured minimum is destabilized and comment on the phenomenological consequences of this instability.

Author

Mr Andrey Katz (Technion- Israel Institute of Technology)

Co-authors

Mr Tomer Volansky (Weizmann Institute of Science) Prof. Yael Shadmi (Technion- Israel Institute of Technology)

Presentation materials