Confining N=1 SUSY gauge theories from Seiberg duality

TL;DR

This paper reviews and extends Seiberg's idea that N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories can exhibit confinement without chiral symmetry breaking, using magnetic duals to derive confining spectra.

Contribution

It introduces a generalized method to derive confining spectra from magnetic duals in N=1 SUSY gauge theories, including models with tensor fields and superpotentials.

Findings

Confinement without chiral symmetry breaking can be understood via magnetic duals.

The method applies to models with second rank tensor fields.

Explicit confining spectra are derived for various models.

Abstract

In this talk I review and generalize an idea of Seiberg that an N=1 supersymmetric gauge theory shows confinement without breaking of chiral symmetry when the gauge symmetry of its magnetic dual is completely broken by the Higgs effect. It is shown how the confining spectrum of a supersymmetric gauge theory can easily be derived when a magnetic dual is known and this method is applied to many models containing fields in second rank tensor representations and an appropriate tree-level superpotential.