Gaugino and meson condensates in N=1 SQCD from Seiberg-Witten curves

TL;DR

This paper computes gaugino and meson condensates in N=1 SQCD with fundamental matter by deforming N=2 theories, extending previous work to include matter fields and providing explicit condensate calculations.

Contribution

It introduces a method to calculate condensates in N=1 SQCD with fundamental matter using Seiberg-Witten curves, expanding on prior work that lacked matter fields.

Findings

Explicit formulas for gaugino condensates

Explicit formulas for meson condensates

Extension of previous methods to theories with matter

Abstract

We calculate gaugino and meson condensates in N=1 SQCD theory with SU(N_c) gauge group and N_f < 2N_c matter flavours, by deforming the pure N=2 Super-Yang-Mills plus fundamental matter action with a mass term for the adjoint scalar superfield. This follows similar recent work by Konishi and Ricco hep-th/0306128 for the case without fundamental matter.