Light Dilaton at Fixed Points and Ultra Light Scale Super Yang Mills

TL;DR

This paper explores a nonsupersymmetric SU(X) gauge theory with an adjoint fermion and scalar, revealing a light dilaton near an infrared fixed point and connecting its spectrum to supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory.

Contribution

It demonstrates the existence of a light dilaton at a perturbative fixed point and links the nonperturbative spectrum to pure supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, providing exact condensate calculations.

Findings

Identification of a light scalar dilaton near the fixed point

Spectrum matches that of pure supersymmetric Yang-Mills at low energy

Intrinsic scale of super Yang-Mills is exponentially smaller than symmetry-breaking scales

Abstract

We investigate the infrared dynamics of a nonsupersymmetric SU(X) gauge theory featuring an adjoint fermion, Nf Dirac flavors and an Higgs-like complex Nf x Nf scalar which is a gauge singlet. We first establish the existence of an infrared stable perturbative fixed point and then investigate the spectrum near this point. We demonstrate that this theory naturally features a light scalar degree of freedom to be identified with the dilaton and elucidate its physical properties. We compute the spectrum and demonstrate that at low energy the nonperturbative part of the spectrum of the theory is the one of pure supersymmetric Yang-Mills. We can therefore determine the exact nonperturbative fermion condensate and deduce relevant properties of the nonperturbative spectrum of the theory. We also show that the intrinsic scale of super Yang-Mills is exponentially smaller than the scale associated to the breaking of conformal and chiral symmetry of the theory.