Meta-Stable Vacua and D-Branes at the Conifold

Journal Article · Mon Jul 28 04:00:00 EDT 2008 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2972019· OSTI ID:21149245

Argurio, Riccardo ^[1]; Bertolini, Matteo ^[2]; Franco, Sebastian ^[3]; Kachru, Shamit ^[4]

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1. Physique Theorique et Mathematique and International Solvay Institutes Universite Libre de Bruxelles, C.P. 231, 1050 Bruxelles (Belgium)
2. SISSA/ISAS and INFN-Sezione di Trieste, Via Beirut 2, I 34014 Trieste (Italy)
3. Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 (United States)
4. Department of Physics and SLAC, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 (United States)

We study gauge theories arising on D-branes on quotients of the conifold. They exhibit meta-stable SUSY breaking along the lines of the model by Intriligator, Seiberg and Shih. We propose a candidate for the extrapolation to large't Hooft coupling of the meta-stable state. It involves anti D3-branes in a smooth gravity dual of a cascading gauge theory.

• OSTI ID: 21149245
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1031; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
COUPLING
D-BRANES
EXTRAPOLATION
GAUGE INVARIANCE
GRAVITATION
METASTABLE STATES
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
QUANTUM GRAVITY
STRING MODELS
STRING THEORY
SUPERSYMMETRY
SYMMETRY BREAKING
VACUUM STATES