Konishi Anomaly and Chiral Gauge Theories

TL;DR

This paper explores the use of Konishi anomaly in solving for the effective superpotential in N=1 gauge theories, with a focus on a chiral SO(10) model and its implications for dynamical supersymmetry breaking.

Contribution

It demonstrates how the Konishi anomaly can be used to exactly determine the effective superpotential in certain chiral gauge theories, providing new insights into supersymmetry breaking.

Findings

Konishi anomaly enables exact solutions for superpotentials.

Chiral SO(10) gauge theory exhibits dynamical supersymmetry breaking.

Systematic techniques for superpotential computation are discussed.

Abstract

We begin with a brief introduction on N=1 gauge theories, focusing on the importance of the effective superpotential in light of the new techniques to compute it systematically. We then proceed to consider theories for which the Konishi anomaly proves to be enough to solve exactly for the effective superpotential. As an example we study a chiral SO(10) gauge theory, where we also discuss the occurrence of dynamical supersymmetry breaking.