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Dynamical Breaking of Supersymmetry

Edward Witten
- 05 Oct 1981 - 
- Vol. 188, Iss: 3, pp 513-554
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In this article, general conditions for dynamical supersymmetry breaking are discussed and examples are given (in 0 + 1 and 2 + 1 dimensions) in which such a program in four dimensions is possible.
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This article is published in Nuclear Physics.The article was published on 1981-10-05. It has received 3270 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Supersymmetry breaking & Symmetry breaking.

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Proton decay in supersymmetric models

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that in the presence of a discrete symmetry which occurs in an SU(5) supersymmetric unified model, it is possible to obtain rates which are comparable with those of standard SU (5).
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Supersymmetric Gauge Theories

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce simple and more advanced concepts that have played a key role in the development of supersymmetric quantum mechanics models and discuss the relation of conformal symmetry to a vanishing vacuum energy (cosmological constant).
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Dynamical supersymmetry breaking

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a list of representative supersymmetry breaking (DSB) models, their main properties, and the relations among them, as well as some recently discovered exceptions.
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Infinitely many regulator fields for chiral fermions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that two recent independent proposals for regularizing a chiral gauge theory stem from one common trick: if the anomaly free complex representation carried by the righthanded Fermi-fields is r, one constructs a vector like theory with flavored right handed fermionic matter in r+ r but with a mass matrix of the order of the cutoff and having an index equal to unity in an infinite dimensional flavor space.
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Flavour-changing neutral interactions in broken supersymmetric theories

TL;DR: In this paper, the supersymmetric partners of conventional fermions (squarks and sleptons) must be almost degenerate in mass to ensure an efficient suppression of flavour-changing neutral interactions.
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Recent Developments in Gauge Theories

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of recent developments on non-perturbative gauge fields by some of the leading experts and innovators in this field, including the Cargese Institute on "Recent Developments on Gauge Theories".
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Chiral-symmetry breakdown in large-N chromodynamics

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that in the limit of a large number of colors, under reasonable assumptions, this symmetry group must spontaneously break down to diagonal σ(n) under chiral conditions.
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On constrained instantons

TL;DR: In this article, a simple method is presented for doing systematic constrained instanton calculations in models such as φ4 or Higgs theories where the presence of a mass term prevents the existence of a classical solution.
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