High Energy Physics Seminar - Yuri Shirman (UC, Irvine) "Dynamics of 3D SUSY Guage Theories With Generic Matter Representations"

Shirman smiling with hill and lake in the background
Mon, September 8, 2014
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
4138 Physics Research Building

The presence of generic matter representations leads to further splittings of the Coulomb branch. Counting zero modes in the monople-instanton background suggests that several Coulomb branch moduli remain unlifted at the quantum level. I will illustrate this possibility by considering SU(4) with one or two antisymmetric fields and using known 4d results to derive s-confining superpotential in 3d. I will also describe several consistency checks supporting the validity of the results.