Towards the super Yang-Mills spectrum at large $N_c$

TL;DR

This paper investigates the spectrum of large N_c super Yang-Mills theories using one-flavor SU(N_c) gauge theories with antisymmetric fermions, aiming to approximate supersymmetric models and report on spectral and computational progress.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to approximate super Yang-Mills spectra at large N_c using antisymmetric fermions and reports new dynamical calculations for N_c>3.

Findings

Spectral evaluations for N_c=3 are summarized.

Progress in dynamical calculations for N_c>3 is reported.

Challenges in configuration generation and cut-off effects are discussed.

Abstract

We examine one-flavour $SU(N_c)$ gauge theories, where $N_c$ denotes the number of colors, with one fermion in the antisymmetric representation as a candidate to approximate $\mathcal{N}=1$ super Yang Mills due to their equivalence in the large-$N_c$ limit. Summarising results on spectral evaluations of $N_c=3$, we will report on the progress of dynamical calculations for $N_c>3$. We discuss cut-off effects and challenges in configuration generation.