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Symmetry Breaking By Massive Fermions Under Sugimoto S-Duality / HENRY HARPER-GARDNER

Swansea University Author: HENRY HARPER-GARDNER

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In this project we investigate the behaviour of strongly coupled gauge theories with massive fermion fields under the S-duality proposed by Sugimoto [1]. In the massless case described by Sugimoto we see that the highly non-trivial dynamics of the fermion fields corresponds directly to the behaviour o...

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Published: Swansea 2023
Institution: Swansea University
Degree level: Master of Research
Degree name: MSc by Research
Supervisor: Armoni, Adi ; Thompson, Dan
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62700
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spelling 2023-02-20T17:26:27.5505839 v2 62700 2023-02-20 Symmetry Breaking By Massive Fermions Under Sugimoto S-Duality 173d1f7b634f3c3448024cdb5698d796 HENRY HARPER-GARDNER HENRY HARPER-GARDNER true false 2023-02-20 In this project we investigate the behaviour of strongly coupled gauge theories with massive fermion fields under the S-duality proposed by Sugimoto [1]. In the massless case described by Sugimoto we see that the highly non-trivial dynamics of the fermion fields corresponds directly to the behaviour of a schematic scalar potential in the S-dual theory, which shows very clear global and gauge symmetry breaking as expected in the initial theory. We induce mass terms for the scalar and fermion fields by coupling the underlying string theory to a supergravity background and show that this preserves a subgroup of the global symmetry and lifts the vacuum degeneracy of the scalar potential in the S-dual side. Furthermore, we derive relations between the flux induced fermion masses to the masses induced in the Nambu-Goldstone modes of the S-dual scalar potential in an analogous way to the GMOR relation known from QCD. In this way we demonstrate a formal relation which is consistent with present QCD theory which derives from Sugimoto’s duality, as well as providing a proof of concept for an insightful analytical tool for non-SUSY gauge theories. E-Thesis Swansea D-Branes, QCD, Nuclear, String Theory, Gauge Theory, GMOR, Quark Mass 14 2 2023 2023-02-14 COLLEGE NANME COLLEGE CODE Swansea University Armoni, Adi ; Thompson, Dan Master of Research MSc by Research 2023-02-20T17:26:27.5505839 2023-02-20T17:12:13.2276011 Faculty of Science and Engineering School of Biosciences, Geography and Physics - Physics HENRY HARPER-GARDNER 1 62700__26638__1784d774c7a34f53809bff8242b0187a.pdf Harper-Gardner_Henry_MSc_Research_Thesis_Final_Redacted_Signature.pdf 2023-02-20T17:22:21.6257886 Output 965083 application/pdf E-Thesis – open access true Copyright: The author, Henry Harper-Gardner, 2023. true eng
title Symmetry Breaking By Massive Fermions Under Sugimoto S-Duality
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title_full Symmetry Breaking By Massive Fermions Under Sugimoto S-Duality
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description In this project we investigate the behaviour of strongly coupled gauge theories with massive fermion fields under the S-duality proposed by Sugimoto [1]. In the massless case described by Sugimoto we see that the highly non-trivial dynamics of the fermion fields corresponds directly to the behaviour of a schematic scalar potential in the S-dual theory, which shows very clear global and gauge symmetry breaking as expected in the initial theory. We induce mass terms for the scalar and fermion fields by coupling the underlying string theory to a supergravity background and show that this preserves a subgroup of the global symmetry and lifts the vacuum degeneracy of the scalar potential in the S-dual side. Furthermore, we derive relations between the flux induced fermion masses to the masses induced in the Nambu-Goldstone modes of the S-dual scalar potential in an analogous way to the GMOR relation known from QCD. In this way we demonstrate a formal relation which is consistent with present QCD theory which derives from Sugimoto’s duality, as well as providing a proof of concept for an insightful analytical tool for non-SUSY gauge theories.
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