Vortex strings and four-dimensional gauge dynamics

By A. Hanany, David Tong. 2004

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We study the low-energy quantum dynamics of vortex strings in the Higgs phase of = 2 supersymmetric QCD. The exact BPS spectrum of the stretched string is shown to coincide with the BPS spectrum of the four-dimensional parent gauge theory. Perturbative string excitations correspond to bound W-bosons and quarks while the monopoles appear as kinks on the vortex string. This provides a physical explanation for an observation by N. Dorey relating the quantum spectra of theories in two and four dimensions.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• The effective theory of long strings (2013, background): “Some of the well-known examples come from supersymmetric QCD-like theories, see [5,6,7], the reviews [8,9,10], and references therein.”
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