Speaker
Bea Noether
(UC Berkeley)
Description
I will review developments in applying Anomaly Mediated SUSY Breaking (AMSB) as a theoretical tool for understanding the dynamics of strongly coupled gauge theories. After reviewing the general properties of AMSB, I will show what we have been able to learn when applying it to a variety of examples. Many non-trivial consistency conditions are satisfied. In the case of QCD, I will show how we can establish the presence of chiral symmetry breaking vacua, explicitly calculate condensates, derive the chiral lagrangian, and even obtain the low-lying spectrum of hadrons in qualitative agreement with QCD. I will conclude with an example of a phenomenological application in composite axion models.
Author
Bea Noether
(UC Berkeley)
