String Theory seminar - Masazumi Honda Seminar
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- Time:
- 13:00
- Date:
- 19 February 2020
- Venue:
- Building 54, room 10031
For more information regarding this seminar, please email David Turton at [email protected] .
Event details
Title: Evidence for a Non-Supersymmetric 5d CFT from Deformations of 5d SU(2) SYM
Abstract: We study supersymmetry breaking deformations of the N=1 5d fixed point known as E1, the UV completion of SU(2) super-Yang-Mills. The phases of the non-supersymmetric theory can be characterized by Chern-Simons terms involving background U(1) gauge fields, allowing us to identify a phase transition at strong coupling. We propose that this may signify the emergence of a non-trivial, non-supersymmetric CFT in d=4+1 dimensions. This talk is based on a collaboration with Pietro Benetti Genolini, Hee-Cheol Kim, David Tong and Cumrun Vafa.
Speaker information
Masazumi Honda , Cambridge.