Supersymmetric asymptotic safety is not guaranteed

Intriligator, Kenneth; Sannino, Francesco

doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2015)023

Title: Supersymmetric asymptotic safety is not guaranteed

Journal Article · 05 November 2015 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2015)023 · OSTI ID:1434588

Intriligator, Kenneth ^[1]; Sannino, Francesco ^[2]

University of California, San Diego, La Jolla (United States). Department of Physics; CP3-Origins & the Danish Institute for Advanced Study, Danish IASUniv. of Southern Denmark Odense Denmark
Univ. of Southern Denmark, Odense (Denmark). CP3-Origins & the Danish Institute for Advanced Study, Danish IAS

It was recently shown that certain perturbatively accessible, non-supersymmetric gauge-Yukawa theories have UV asymptotic safety, without asymptotic freedom: the UV theory is an interacting RG fixed point, and the IR theory is free. We here investigate the possibility of asymptotic safety in supersymmetric theories, and use unitarity bounds, and the a-theorem, to rule it out in broad classes of theories. The arguments apply without assuming perturbation theory. Therefore, the UV completion of a non-asymptotically free susy theory must have additional, non-obvious degrees of freedom, such as those of an asymptotically free (perhaps magnetic dual) extension.

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Research Organization:: University of California, San Diego, La Jolla (United States). Department of Physics

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0009919

OSTI ID:: 1434588

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 2015; ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer BerlinCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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