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Phys. Rev. D 63, 085016 (2001) [8 pages]

Domain walls in supersymmetric QCD: The taming of the zoo

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Daniele Binosi*
Departamento de Física Teórica and IFIC, Centro Mixto, Universidad de Valencia-CSIC, E-46100, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain

Tonnis ter Veldhuis
Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

Received 14 November 2000; published 27 March 2001

We provide a unified picture of the domain wall spectrum in supersymmetric QCD with Nc colors and Nf flavors of quarks in the (anti) fundamental representation. Within the framework of the Veneziano-Yankielowicz-Taylor effective Lagrangian, we consider domain walls connecting chiral symmetry breaking vacua, and we take the quark masses to be degenerate. For Nf/Nc<1/2, there is one BPS saturated domain wall for any value of the quark mass m. For 1/2<~Nf/Nc<1 there are two critical masses m* and m** which depend on the number of colors and flavors only through the ratio Nf/Nc. If m<m*, there are two BPS walls; if m*<m<m**, there is one non-BPS wall; and if m>m**, there is no domain wall. We numerically determine m* and m** as a function of Nf/Nc, and we find that m** approaches a constant value in the limit that this ratio goes to 1.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.63.085016
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.63.085016
PACS:
11.30.Pb, 11.27.+d, 12.60.Jv

*Email address: binosi@hal.ific.uv.es

Email address: veldhuis@hep.umn.edu