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BPS Monopoles and Electromagnetic Duality 1
We review our recent work on the BPS magnetic monopoles and its relation to the electromagnetic duality in the N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills systems with an arbitrary gauge group. The gauge group can be maximally or partially broken. The low energy dynamics of the massive and massless magnetic monopoles are approximated by the moduli space metric. We emphasize the possible connection between the nature of the monopole moduli space with unbroken gauge group and the physics of mesons and baryons in QCD.
119250832
New BPS configurations of BMN matrix theory
We explore the 1/2 BPS configurations in BMN matrix theory with SO(3) angular momentum of SO(3) × SO(6) symmetry. The fluctuation analysis of the BPS configurations near the abelian solutions and also the fuzzy two sphere vacua reveals how nonabelian BPS configurations emerge. Especially the irreducible nonabelian configurations seem to have the maximal angular momentum of order N3, beyond which they collapse to abelian ones. We also find some new BPS configurations explicitly.
7063414
Mass-Deformed Bagger-Lambert Theory and its BPS Objects
We find a 16-supersymmetric mass-deformed Bagger-Lambert theory with SO(4)xSO(4) global R symmetry. The R charge plays the role of the noncentral term in the superalgebra. This theory has one symmetric vacuum and two inequivalent broken sectors of vacua. Each sector of the broken symmetry has SO(4) geometry. We find the 1/2 BPS domain walls connecting the symmetric phase and any broken phase, and 1/4 BPS supertubelike objects, which may appear as anyonic q-balls in the symmetric phase or vortices in the broken phase. We also discuss mass deformations, which reduce the number of supersymmetries.
119199828
The general M5-brane superconformal index
We calculate and study the general superconformal index for the 6d U(N) (2,0) theory with four chemical potentials, from the indices of gauge theories on CP^2 x R. Our index agrees with the large N supergravity index on AdS_7 x S^4 at low energies, and also yields the negative 'Casimir energy' with an N^3 scaling which was recently calculated from a QFT on S^5. Our approach also suggests a systematic study of the (1,0) superconformal indices.
29030259
Magnetic monopole with Wilson-loop symmetry breaking.
A nonsingular classical magnetic-monopole solution is obtained in a theory with Wilson-loop symmetry breaking. The solution is used to elucidate the quantization rules governing the magnetic charge, which are more restrictive than those for Higgs monopoles.
11205361
The CP(n) model on noncommutative plane
We construct the consistent CP(n) model on noncommutative plane. The Bogomolny bound on the energy is saturated by (anti-)self-dual solitons with integer topological charge, which is independent of their scaling and orientation. This integer quantization is satisfied for our general solutions, which turns out regular everywhere. We discuss the possible implication of our result to the instanton physics in Yang–Mills theories on noncommutative R4.
117796529
Initial Parton Distribution just after Heavy-Ion Collisions
We study in detail the initial distribution of a parton system that is formed just after relativistic heavy-ion collisions by elastic scattering among the constituent partons and analyze the baryon and strangeness contents of the primary parton system. We present the rapidity and the energy distributions of the system.
51543374
Unitarity violation of the CKM matrix in a nonuniversal gauge interaction model
We explore the unitarity violation of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix in the model where the third generation fermions are subjected to the separate SU(2){sub L} gauge interaction. With the recent LEP and SLAC linear collider (SLC) data at Z-pole and low-energy neutral current interaction data, the analysis on the parameter space of the model is updated, and the unitary violation is predicted under the constraint.
119120819
Stringy differential geometry, beyond Riemann
While the fundamental object in Riemannian geometry is a metric, closed string theories call for us to put a two-form gauge field and a scalar dilaton on an equal footing with the metric. Here we propose a novel differential geometry that treats the three objects in a unified manner, manifests not only diffeomorphism and one-form gauge symmetry but also $\mathbf{O}(D,D)$ T-duality, and enables us to rewrite the known low energy effective action of them as a single term. Further, we develop a corresponding vielbein formalism and gauge the internal symmetry that is given by a direct product of two local Lorentz groups, $\mathbf{S}\mathbf{O}(1,D\ensuremath{-}1)\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}\overline{\mathbf{S}\mathbf{O}}(1,D\ensuremath{-}1)$. We comment that the notion of cosmological constant naturally changes.
122648978
Strangeness and hadronization from a quark-gluon plasma☆
Abstract From a phenomenological equation of state, the role of strangeness in the hadronizing QGP is studied. Even though strangeness abundance of the QGP is similar to that of an equilibrium hadron gas, the characteristic change in the slope of energy spectra of K + and K − mesons can serve as a signature of QGP.
15165172
Partially composite two-Higgs doublet model
In the extra dimensional scenarios with gauge fields in the bulk, the Kaluza-Klein (KK) gauge bosons can induce Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) type attractive four-fermion interactions, which can break electroweak symmetry dynamically with accompanying composite Higgs fields. We consider a possibility that electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) is triggered by both a fundamental Higgs and a composite Higgs arising in a dynamical symmetry breaking mechanism induced by a new strong dynamics. The resulting Higgs sector is a partially composite two-Higgs doublet model with specific boundary conditions on the coupling and mass parameters originating at a compositeness scale Λ. The phenomenology of this model is discussed including the collider phenomenology at LHC and ILC.