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MULTI-VORTICES WITH LARGE MAGNETIC FLUX
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Skyrmions in Yang-Mills theories with massless adjoint quarks
Dynamics of SU(N{sub c}) Yang-Mills theories with N{sub f} adjoint Weyl fermions is quite different from that of SU(N{sub c}) gauge theories with fundamental quarks. The symmetry breaking pattern is SU(N{sub f}){yields}SO(N{sub f}). The corresponding sigma model supports Skyrmions whose microscopic identification is not immediately clear. We address this issue as well as the issue of the Skyrmion stability. The case of N{sub f}=2 had been considered previously. Here we discuss N{sub f}{>=}3. We discuss the coupling between the massless Goldstone bosons and massive composite fermions [with mass O(N{sub c}{sup 0})] from the standpoint of the low-energy chiral sigma model. We derive the Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten term and then determine Skyrmion statistics. We also determine their fermion number (mod 2) and observe an abnormal relation between the statistics and the fermion number. This explains the Skyrmion stability. In addition, we consider another microscopic theory--SO(N{sub c}) Yang-Mills with N{sub f} Weyl fermions in the vectorial representation--which has the same chiral symmetry breaking pattern and the same chiral Lagrangian. We discuss distinctive features of these two scenarios.
16025103
The Holomorphic Tension of Nonabelian Vortices and the Quark = Dual-Quark Condensate
We continue the work hep-th/0411075 considering here the case of degenerate masses. A nonabelian vortex arises in r-vacua upon the breaking by a superpotential for the adjoint field. The holomorphic tension, equal to the dual-quark condensate, is found to be exactly equal to the quark condensate. We explain this equality as a consequence of the invariance of the BPS tension along the Higgs branch.
119310326
Instanton Partons in 5-dim SU(N) Gauge Theory
The circle compactification of the 6-dim (2,0) superconformal theory of AN 1 type leads the 5-dim SU(N) maximally supersymmetric gauge theory. Instanton solitons embody Kaluza-Klein modes and are conjectured to be composed of partonic constituents. We realize such a parton of 1/N instanton topological charge at the intersection of mag- netic flux sheets. After a further compactification with nontrivial Wilson line expectation value, instantons or calorons have been shown to be split into fundamental monopoles of fractional instanton charge. In the symmetric phase with trivial Wilson line expectation value, BPS instanton partons emerge more concretely as nonabelian BPS monopoles of minimum charge allowed in Dirac quantization.
119275608
Holographic dual of the lowest Landau level
A bstractWe describe the lowest Landau level of a quantum electron star in AdS4. In the presence of a suitably strong magnetic field, the dynamics of fermions in the bulk is effectively reduced from four to two dimensions. These two-dimensional fermions can subsequently be treated using the techniques of bosonization and the difficult many-body problem of building a gravitating, charged quantum star is reduced to solving the sine-Gordon model coupled to a gauge field and a metric. The kinks of the sine-Gordon model provide the holographic dual of the lowest Landau levels of the strongly-coupled d = 2+1-dimensional boundary field theory. The system exhibits order one oscillations in the magnetic susceptibility, now arising as a classical effect in the bulk. Moreover, as the chemical potential is varied, we find jumps in the charge density, oscillations in the fractionalised charge density and plateaux in the cohesive charge density.
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Hopf Skyrmion in QCD with adjoint quarks
We consider a modification of QCD in which conventional fundamental quarks are replaced by Weyl fermions in the adjoint representation of the color SU(N). In the case of two flavors the low-energy chiral Lagrangian is that of the Skyrme-Faddeev model. The latter supports topologically stable solitons with mass scaling as N{sup 2}. Topological stability is due to the existence of a nontrivial Hopf invariant in the Skyrme-Faddeev model. Our task is to identify, at the level of the fundamental theory, adjoint QCD, an underlying reason responsible for the stability of the corresponding hadrons. We argue that all 'normal' mesons and baryons, with mass O(N{sup 0}), are characterized by (-1){sup Q}(-1){sup F}=1, where Q is a conserved charge corresponding to the unbroken U(1) surviving in the process of the chiral symmetry breaking (SU(2){yields}U(1) for two adjoint flavors). Moreover, F is the fermion number (defined mod 2 in the case at hand). We argue that there exist exotic hadrons with mass O(N{sup 2}) and (-1){sup Q}(-1){sup F}=-1. They are in one-to-one correspondence with the Hopf Skyrmions. The transition from nonexotic to exotic hadrons is due to a shift in F, namely F{yields}F-H where H is the Hopf invariant. To detect this phenomenonmore » we have to extend the Skyrme-Faddeev model by introducing fermions.« less
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Higgs at LHC
An overview of recent theoretical results on the Higgs boson and its discovery strategy at ATLAS and CMS will be presented, focusing on the main Higgs analysis effective with low integrated luminosity (less than 30 fb^-1).