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Self-conjugate QCD

Anber, Mohamed M.

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We carry out a systematic study of SU(6) Yang-Mills theory endowed with fermions in the adjoint and 3-index antisymmetric mixed-representation. The fermion bilinear in the 3-index antisymmetric representation vanishes identically, which leads to interesting new phenomena. We first study the theory on a small circle, i.e., on R3×S1L, employing symmetry-twisted boundary conditions and semi-classical techniques. We find that the ground state is 3-fold degenerate, which can be explained as a consequence of a 1-form/0-form mixed ’t Hooft anomaly. In addition, the theory may admit massless bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom, depending on the number of flavors, and confines the electric probes in the infrared. Empowered by ’t Hooft anomaly matching conditions along with the 2-loop β-function, we further examine the possible infrared symmetry realizations on ℝ4 for various number of adjoint and 3-index antisymmetric fermions. The infrared theory is either a conformal field theory, which is expected for a large number of flavors, or it is confining with or without chiral symmetry breaking. In a few cases, we are able to give enough evidence for adiabatic continuity between the small- and large-circle limits.

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Anber, M. M. (2019). Self-conjugate QCD. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(10), https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10%282019%29042

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 16, 2019
Online Publication Date Oct 4, 2019
Publication Date 2019
Deposit Date Oct 3, 2021
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Journal of High Energy Physics
Print ISSN 1126-6708
Publisher Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2019
Issue 10
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10%282019%29042

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