2006/02/28 by Kenneth Intriligator, Nathan Seiberg, David Shih · 530 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Class (philosophy) #Homogeneous space #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Simple (philosophy) #String (physics) #String theory #Supersymmetry #Supersymmetry algebra #Supersymmetry breaking #Vacuum state #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2006/04/021
published in Journal of High Energy Physics 2006(04), 021 (Springer Nature) · 48 pages, 1 figure, added discussion about the spectrum and some cosmological implications
arxiv created 2006/04/01 · openalex publication_date 2006/04/10 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/08
Dynamical supersymmetry breaking in a long-lived meta-stable vacuum is a phenomenologically viable possibility. This relatively unexplored avenue leads to many new models of dynamical supersymmetry breaking. Here, we present a surprisingly simple class of models with meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking: N=1 supersymmetric QCD, with massive flavors. Though these theories are strongly coupled, we definitively demonstrate the existence of meta-stable vacua by using the free-magnetic dual. Model building challenges, such as large flavor symmetries and the absence of an R-symmetry, are easily accommodated in these theories. Their simplicity also suggests that broken supersymmetry is generic in supersymmetric field theory and in the landscape of string vacua.