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Superconformal index of large N and long quivers
Mohammad Akhond, Leonardo Santilli
We develop a universal framework for computing generating functions in quiver gauge theories in the large limit. We apply this method to the superconformal index of 4d $\mathca…
Spin(N) Magnetic Quivers
Mohammad Akhond, Sam Bennett, Amihay Hanany
This work introduces new magnetic quivers for Spin(N) gauge theories with hypermultiplets in spinor representations at both finite and infinite couplin…
Couch-Torrence conformal inversion, supersymmetry and conserved charges for D3-branes
Mohammad Akhond, Massimo Bianchi, Antonio Cristofaro +1
An asymptotically flat spacetime in can be mapped via Couch-Torrence conformal inversion to the geometry around an extremal non-expanding and non-rotating horizon. At the lin…
Generalised anomalies, QCD, and holography
Mohammad Akhond, Shigeki Sugimoto
During the last decade, the notion of an 't Hooft anomaly has been generalised to the case of discrete symmetries. An interesting instance, discussed by Tanizaki, is the mixed anom…
On brane systems with O planes -- 5d and 6d SCFTs
Mohammad Akhond, Guillermo Arias-Tamargo, Federico Carta +2
We study Higgs branches of field theories with 8 supercharges in 5 and 6 dimensions, focusing on theories realised on 5-brane webs in Type IIB with an O plane, or a D6-D8-NS5…
5d SCFTs and their non-supersymmetric cousins
Mohammad Akhond, Masazumi Honda, Francesco Mignosa
We consider generalisations of the recently proposed supersymmetry breaking deformation of the 5d rank-1 superconformal field theory to higher rank. We generalise the argumen…
Matrix Models and Holography: Mass Deformations of Long Quiver Theories in 5d and 3d
Mohammad Akhond, Andrea Legramandi, Carlos Nunez +2
We enlarge the dictionary between matrix models for long linear quivers preserving eight supercharges in and and type IIB supergravity backgrounds with AdS fact…
Massive flows in AdS/CFT
Mohammad Akhond, Andrea Legramandi, Carlos Nunez +2
We study five-dimensional Superconformal Field Theories of the linear quiver type. These are deformed by a relevant operator, corresponding to a homogeneous mass term…
Exploring the orthosymplectic zoo
Mohammad Akhond, Federico Carta, Siddharth Dwivedi +3
We study the Higgs branch of the SCFT limit of 5d SO(6) and SO(8) gauge theory with hypermultiplets in the spinor and vector representations. In the case of SO(6) gauge theories, w…
The Hitchhiker's Guide to 4d Superconformal Field Theories
Mohammad Akhond, Guillermo Arias-Tamargo, Alessandro Mininno +4
Superconformal field theory with supersymmetry in four dimensional spacetime provides a prime playground to study strongly coupled phenomena in quantum field theory…
Electrostatic description of 3d linear quivers
Mohammad Akhond, Andrea Legramandi, Carlos Nunez
We present the holographic dual for the strongly coupled, low energy dynamics of balanced field theories in dimensions. The infinite family of Type IIB backgro…
Magnetic quivers from brane webs with O7-planes
Mohammad Akhond, Federico Carta
We consider the Higgs branch of 5d fixed points engineered using brane webs with an O7-plane. We use the brane construction to propose a set of rules to extract the correspondi…
Factorised 3d orthosymplectic quivers
Mohammad Akhond, Federico Carta, Siddharth Dwivedi +3
We study the moduli space of 3d quiver gauge theories with unitary, orthogonal and symplectic gauge nodes, that fall into exceptional sequences. We find that both t…
Five-brane webs, Higgs branches and unitary/orthosymplectic magnetic quivers
Mohammad Akhond, Federico Carta, Siddharth Dwivedi +3
We study the Higgs branch of 5d superconformal theories engineered from brane webs with orientifold five-planes. We propose a generalization of the rules to derive magnetic quivers…
Phases of QCD from Type 0 Strings and Seiberg Duality
Mohammad Akhond, Adi Armoni, Stefano Speziali
We propose an embedding of QCD with a Chern-Simons term in string theory. The UV gauge theory lives on the worldvolume of a Hanany-Witten brane configuration in type 0…