Some properties of unstable monopoles in super-QCD

Journal Article · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1997 · Physical Review, D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.55.1013· OSTI ID:471243

Barbon, J L; Ramgoolam, S ^[1]

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1. Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 (United States)

We study embeddings of the Prasad-Sommerfield monopole solution in SU(N{sub c}) super-QCD (N{sub c}{ge}3), where the role of the Higgs field is played by the squarks in the fundamental representation. Classically, the resulting configurations live in a phase with unbroken SU(k) subgroups of SU(N{sub c}) (as a result they are not topologically stable). The structure of zero modes of these monopoles is such that they can be naturally interpreted as massive chiral superfields, with R charge one and baryon number zero. They transform in the adjoint representation of a dual gauge group defined using the Goddard-Nuyts-Olive (GNO) framework. We speculate on the possible applications of these monopoles to N=1 duality and more generally on the possibility of relating GNO-type dual gauge groups to those appearing in N=1 duality. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}

• Research Organization: Princeton University
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-91ER40671
• OSTI ID: 471243
• Journal Information: Physical Review, D, Journal Name: Physical Review, D Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 55; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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