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Phases of N=1 USp(2Nc) Gauge Theories with Flavors

Changhyun Ahn, Bo Feng, Yutaka Ookouchi

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0307190

Abstract

We studied the phase structures of N=1 supersymmetric USp(2Nc) gauge theory with Nf flavors in the fundamental representation as we deformed the N=2 supersymmetric QCD by adding the superpotential for adjoint chiral scalar field. We determined the most general factorization curves for various breaking patterns, for example, the two different breaking patterns of quartic superpotential. We observed all kinds of smooth transitions for quartic superpotential. Finally we discuss the intriguing role of USp(0) in the phase structure and the possible connection with observations made recently in hep-th/0304271 (Aganagic, Intriligator, Vafa and Warner) and in hep-th/0307063 (Cachazo).

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