Abstract
We review physical scenarios in different vacua of N = 2 supersymmetric QCD deformed by the mass term µ for the adjoint matter. This deformation breaks supersymmetry down to N = 1 and, at large µ, the theory flows to N = 1 QCD. We focus on dynamical scenarios which can serve as prototypes of what we observe in real-world QCD. The so-called r = N vacuum is especially promising in this perspective. In this vacuum an "instead-ofconfinement" phase was identified previously, which is qualitatively close to the conventional QCD confinement: the quarks and gauge bosons screened at weak coupling, at strong coupling evolve into monopole-antimonopole pairs confined by non-Abelian strings. We review genesis of this picture.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | 50 Years of Quarks |
Publisher | World Scientific Publishing Co. |
Pages | 453-471 |
Number of pages | 19 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9789814618113 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789814618090 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2015 |
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