| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 191, 2018
XXth International Seminar on High Energy Physics (QUARKS-2018)
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| Article Number | 06003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 10 | |
| Section | Modern Field Theory and Mathematical Physics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201819106003 | |
| Published online | 31 October 2018 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201819106003
Non-Abelian strings in N = 1 supersymmetric QCD *
1
National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, St. Petersburg 188300, Russia
2
St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg 199034, Russia
3
William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
** e-mail: ievlevea@thd.pnpi.spb.ru
*** e-mail: yung@thd.pnpi.spb.ru
Published online: 31 October 2018
Non-Abelian flux tubes (strings) are well studied in N = 2 supersymmetric QCD in (3+1) dimensions. In addition to translational zero modes they have also orientational moduli associated with rotations of their fluxes inside a non- Abelian group. The dynamics of the orientational moduli is described by the two dimensional CP(N - 1) model living on the world sheet of the non-Abelian string. In this paper we consider a deformation of N = 2 supersymmetric QCD with the U(N) gauge group and Nf = N quark flavors with a mass term μ of the adjoint matter. In the limit of large μ the theory flows to an N = 1 supersymmetric QCD. We study the solution for the non-Abelian string in this limit and derive an effective theory on the string world sheet. The bosonic sector of this theory is still given by the CP(N -1) model. We study also the fermionic sector of the world sheet theory. Upon the deformation the non-Abelian string is no longer BPS and we show that the fermionic superorientational zero modes are all lifted. This leaves us with the pure bosonic CP(N-1) model on the string world sheet in the limit of N = 1 QCD. We discuss what happens to confined monopoles at large μ.
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