Gauge Symmetry Breaking through the Hosotani Mechanism in Softly Broken Supersymmetric QCD

Abstract

Gauge symmetry breaking through the Hosotani mechanism (the dynamics of nonintegrable phases) in softly broken supersymmetric QCD with $N_F^{fd}$ flavors is studied. For $N=$ even, there is a single SU(N) symmetric vacuum state, while for $N=$ odd, there is a doubly degenerate SU(N) symmetric vacuum state in the model. We also study generalized supersymmetric QCD by adding $N_F^{adj}$ numbers of massless adjoint matter. The gauge symmetry breaking pattern such as $SU(3)\to SU(2)\times U(1)$ is possible for appropriate choices of the matter content and values of the supersymmetry breaking parameter. The massless state of the adjoint Higgs scalar is also discussed in the models.

19 pages, no figure, final version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

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