Gauge Symmetry Breaking through Soft Masses in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories

Preprint

31 October 1996

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/9610546

Abstract

Effects of soft breaking in N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories are studied. For N_f < N_c, we include the dynamics of the non-perturbative superpotential and use the original (s)quark and gauge fields. For N_f > N_c +1, we formulate the dynamics in terms of dual (s)quarks and a dual gauge group SU(N_f-N_c). The mass squared of the squarks can be negative triggering spontaneous breakdown of flavor and color symmetry. The general condition for stability of the vacuum is derived. We determine the breaking pattern, determine the spectrum and argue that the masses vary smoothly as one crosses from the Higgs phase into the confining phase, thus exhibiting complementarity.

Keywords

SUPERSYMMETRIC GAUGE THEORIES
THEORIES EFFECTS
GAUGE SYMMETRY
SOFT BREAKING
SOFT MASSES
BREAKDOWN
N_F
N_C

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