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Parametrisation of general MSSM/SUSY based on collider experiment observables
The full MSSM contains 120 parameters. In SUSY searches, one usually picks a model like MSUGRA which makes a few assumptions and only has 5 free parameters like $m_0$, $m_{1/2}$, ....
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Complex masses for Dirac and Weyl spinors
I'm trying understand how to rotate Dirac fields to absorb complex phases in masses. I have a few related questions:
With Weyl spinors, I understand, $$ \mathcal{L} = \text{kinetic} +
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Flavour diagonal SUSY breaking
Because there is a single Yukawa matrix for the SM leptons, the lepton mass and flavour states can be aligned, by diagonalization, even if the Yukawa matrix had off-diagonal elements.
SUSY breaking, ...
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Superfields and the Inconsistency of regularization by dimensional reduction
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How can you show the inconsistency of regularization by dimensional reduction in the $\mathcal{N}=1$ superfield approach (without reducing to components)?
Background and some references:
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On the Coulomb branch of N=2 supersymmetric gauge theory
The chiral ring of the Coulomb branch of a 4d N=2 supersymmetric gauge theory is given by the Casimirs of the vector multiplet scalars, and they don't have non-trivial relations; the Casimirs are ...
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An unfamiliar way of writing supersymmetry transformations
This question is in relation to this recent paper.
I would like to know how the so called supersymmetry transformations at the start of page 27 or at the end of page35 (equation 8.4) or at the end ...
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Is there any way to distinguish experimentally gauge mediation from gravity mediation in an unambiguous way?
There are lots of models of gravity mediated SUSY breaking with various spectra as well as various general gauge mediation models. Are there any "smoking gun" experimental singnatures that could ...
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supersymmetric Noether theorem and supercurrents — invariance requirements
Consider $\mathcal{N}=1,d=4$ SUSY, $n$ chiral superfields $\Phi^i,$ Kaehler potential $K,$ superpotential $W$ and action ($\overline{\Phi}_i$ is complex conjugate of $\Phi^i$)
$$ S= \int d^4x \left[ ...
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About defining “baryons” and “mesons”
I want to understand the proof of the claims (of the construction as well as of its uniqueness) of gauge singlet states given around equation 2.13 (page 10) of this paper.
Also does the listing of ...
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How to perform contour integral in Nekrasov's formula
My question is technical. It is about instanton counting calculation (see this paper).
The partition function of SU(N) gauge theory with $N_f$ fundamental multiplets in k instanton background is ...
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Supersymmetry calculations using computer algebra
Already the early papers on supergravity were written using computer algebra software to do some calculations. What modern packages do people normally use for doing such calculations? Of course ...
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Auxiliary fields in supersymmetry
I know that auxiliary fields can be used to close the supersymmetry algebra in case the bosonic and fermionic on-shell degrees of freedom do not match. Could somebody please elaborate on this concept ...
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Which SUSY models are affected by the recent LHCb result?
The LHCb has recently published the observation of $B_s \rightarrow \mu^+ \mu^-$ with a branching ratio that agrees with the Standard Model (SM). There are many blog posts about it (See: Of Particular ...
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R charge of the chiral multiplet in $2+1$ dimensions
These are two examples that I am puzzled by,
One can see in this paper on page 16 that for ${\cal N} =2$ theory on $2+1$ the R-charge of the $\phi$ and the $\psi$ is determined to be $\frac{1}{2}$ ...
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sigma model on $S^1 \times S^3$
In arXiv:1207.3497 - 4D partition function on $S^1 \times S^3$ and 2D Yang-Mills with nonzero area, Yuji Tachikawa explains the partition function for an 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ sigma model on $S^3 \times ...
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Are irrelevant terms in the Kahler potential always irrelevant, even at strong coupling?
I've been reading about the duality cascade in Strassler's TASI '03 lectures (hep-th/0505153). He reminds us of the non-renormalization theorem theorem for the superpotential so that the beta ...
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The ${\cal N} = 3$ Chern-Simons matter lagrangian
This question is sort of a continuation of this previous question of mine.
I would like to know of some further details about the Lagrangian discussed in this paper in equation 2.8 (page 7) and in ...
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Defects in 3+1 TFTs/2+1 CFTs
I would like to know of good pedagogic references to learn about the notion of "defects" in TFTs and CFTs. I am specially interested in 3+1 TFTs (.and probably about their relation to 2+1 CFTs..)
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Bosonic-Fermionic interactions in supersymmetry
There are a lot of supersymmetric theories, and, sometimes,in the Lagrangian, there are interacting terms between bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom, and sometimes not. Why ?
For instance, for ...
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Holonomy twisting
There is Witten's topological twist of standard SUSY QFTs with enough SUSY into Witten-type TQFTs. What is a holonomy twist?
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Supersymmetric Chern-Simons theories in $d=3$
I am reading up on Chern-Simons matter theories in $d=3$. Here is the quote (from http://thesis.library.caltech.edu/7111 page 15) that I am having trouble with:
One could also add a supersymmetric ...
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Does the number of left handed chiral quark superfields always equal half the number of quark flavours?
In Weinberg's "The Quantum Theory of Fields Vol III" page 267 we're told that $n_f = 2N_f$. Where $n_f$ are the number of flavours and $N_f$ is the number of left chiral quark superfields (or the ...
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What is kappa symmetry?
On page 180 David McMohan explains that to obtain a (spacetime) supersymmetric action for a GS superstring one has to add to the bosonic part
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Linear combination of anomalous dimensions in effective potential on pseudomoduli space
In the paper of Intriligator, Seiberg, and Shih from 2007, they give an expression for the effective potential on the pseudo-moduli space $X$, estimated at large $X$ (equation 1.3).
In this equation, ...
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Can the mass of a SUSY particle depend on the process it participates in?
I believe that mass is property of every particle,as well as spin etc.Now I'm interested in SUSY particles in cMSSM model.Can it be,that mass of a SUSY particle (at one point in five parameter space) ...
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Some more questions on conformal spinors of $SO(n,2)$
This is somewhat of a continuation of my previous question.
I had stated there that a conformal spinor ($V$) of $SO(n,2)$ can be created by taking a direct sum of two $SO(n-1,1)$ spinors $Q$ and $S$ ...
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Central charge at the fixed point of the ${\cal N}=2$ Landau-Ginzburg theory in $1+1$ dimensions
Let me first believe that the ${\cal N}=2$ Landau-Ginzburg theory does in the IR flow to a non-trivial fixed point and that if the potential is of the form $\Phi ^k$ then the central charge of the CFT ...
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What really are exotic supersymmetric black holes?
I have just read (in the black holes chapter 14 on p244 of this book Ref.1) that in string theory, when one adds an (electric?) charge $Q$ to a static black hole, one can arrive at an exotic ...
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Mass spectrum of Type I string theory
I understand that the massless fields of the Type I string theory are the described by:
[\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}
{{\rm{Sector}}}&{{\rm{Massless fields}}}\\
{{\rm{R - R}}}&{{C_0}}\\
{{\rm{NS - ...
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Holomorphic coupling as a source for gaugino condensation
On the top of page 23 of hep-th/03061119, it is pointed out that treating the holomorphic gauge coupling $\tau$ as a background (spurion) superfield allows one to think of its $F$-term, $F_\tau$ as ...
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Perturbation in Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics.
To do perturbation analysis of Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanical Hamiltonian, the superpotential is first scaled by a constant $\lambda >> 1$ and then expanded about it's critical point. Finally ...
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$\mathcal{N}=2$ susy hypermultiplet self-CPT?
Is the multiplet given by
$$\left( -\frac12,0,0,\frac12 \right)$$
self-CPT conjugate?
There seems to be no common agreement upon that:
Weinberg (QFT 3, page 47) and many others claim it is not, ...
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Tangent bundles and $\mathbb{C}P^n$ and $\mathbb{C}^n$
As discussed here the complex projective space $\mathbb{C}P^n$ is the set of all lines on $\mathbb{C}^n$ passing through the origin. It would seem natural to assume that any $\mathbb{C}P^n$ can be ...
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What is non-Abelian about non-Abelian Chern-Simons' theory?
One is aware that in the axial gauge (say the light-cone gauge $A_{-}=0$) non-supersymmetric Chern-Simons' theory is a quadratic theory. Hence in this gauge there are no gauge-gauge interactions. Then ...
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Why/When can the gauge superfield and/or chiral superfield kinetic term in $(2,2)$ SUSY be ignored?
This is in reference to the argument given towards the end of page $61$ of this review paper. There for the path-integral argument to work the author clearly needed some argument to be able to ignore ...
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Treatment of sbottoms in prospino
Could someone please explain the details of the following "propaganda plot" from the prospino website?
There is one curve for stop pair production $\tilde t \bar {\tilde t}$, and one for general ...
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Argument for quantum theoretic conformality of $\cal{N}=2$ super-Chern-Simon's theory in $2+1$ dimensions -Part 2
This is in continuation to what I was asking here earlier -
Argument for quantum theoretic conformality of $\cal{N}=2$ super-Chern-Simon's theory in $2+1$ dimensions
Or one can look at this ...
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A particular supersymmetry transformation
While reading a paper I ran into this particular way of writing a $\cal{N}=3$ fields (in a theory with $N_f$ hypermultiplets) that I couldn't relate to anything I had seen before in the text-books ...
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References for Understanding Minahan's N=4 SCFT review
This is about the same paper as this thread: Some questions about chapter I.1 (by Minahan) of the "Review of AdS/CFT Integrability" but it was never answered.
I have some different ...
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A puzzle from 'The origin of the hidden supersymmetry'
In the paper arXiv:1004.5489 The origin of the hidden supersymmetry, the author use {Qa,Qa}={Qb,Qb}=2H, {Qa,Qb}=0 for N=2 hidden SUSY, which is different from what I was taught: {Qa,Qa}={Qb,Qb}=0, ...
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Supersymmetric Sigma Model
I was working through the Mirror Symmetry book by Clay Math Institute. It deals with supersymmetric sigma model in 10.4 section. It doesn't derive how the action is invariant under the variation. I am ...
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Can mass dimension of a field be viewed as another 'quantum number'?
While studying SUSY in 4D, I noticed the dynamical chiral superfield has dimension [GeV], whereas the dynamical vector superfield (for gauge theories) is unitless. Because I was introduced to the ...
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Conservation laws in mSUGRA model
Can somebody list all the quantum numbers (beside R-parity) that are conserved in vertex for SUSY particles in mSUGRA model?
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Some questions about flavour and R-symmetry in $2+1$ ${\cal N}=3$ theory
I have heard this fact that for ${\cal N}=3$ theories in $2+1$ with $N_f$ ${\cal N}=3$ matter fields the flavour symmetry group is $USp(N_f)$, $U(N_f)$ or $SO(2N_f)$ depending on whether the gauge ...
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Derivation of the supergravity action in 11D
The Einstein-Hilbert action of general relativity is uniquely determined by general covariance and the requirement that only second derivatives in the metric appear. Yang-Mills theory can be motivated ...
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How to obtain deconfined theory from an s-confined N=1 susy gauge theory?
Is there a systematic procedure for obtaining a deconfined theory from an s-confining theory (as defined in hep-th/9610139 for example)?
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Scalar-fermion bound state
Is it possible to have a bound state between a scalar and a fermion? For example, a squark--anti-squark bound state, provided that the decay width is sufficiently small compared to the binding energy?
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