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
September 8, 2014
3:00PM - 4:00PM
4138 Physics Research Building

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2014-09-08 15:00:00 2014-09-08 16:00:00 High Energy Physics Seminar - Yuri Shirman (UC, Irvine) "Dynamics of 3D SUSY Guage Theories With Generic Matter Representations" 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.   4138 Physics Research Building America/New_York public

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.