28 August 2011 to 2 September 2011
Fermilab
US/Central timezone
Slides available on Indico -- there are no formal proceedings

Supersymmetry Breaking Triggered by Monopoles

28 Aug 2011, 14:55
20m
D: Wilson Hall 1 North

D: Wilson Hall 1 North

Speaker

Dr David Curtin (C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook)

Description

After briefly reviewing the insights of Seiberg and Witten (1994) which provide a low-energy description of N = 2 SUSY theories featuring massless monopoles, we investigate N = 1 supersymmetric gauge theories where monopole condensation triggers supersymmetry breaking in a metastable vacuum. The low-energy effective theory is an O’Raifeartaigh-like model of the kind investigated recently by Shih where the R-symmetry can be spontaneously broken.

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