Near-SUSY to non-SUSY crossover

Kondo, Dan [Univ. of Tokyo (Japan). Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI)] (ORCID:0000000262683332); Murayama, Hitoshi [Univ. of Tokyo (Japan). Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI); University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000157699471); Noether, Bea [University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000229473210)

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Near-SUSY to non-SUSY crossover

Kondo, Dan [Univ. of Tokyo (Japan). Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI)] (ORCID:0000000262683332)·Murayama, Hitoshi [Univ. of Tokyo (Japan). Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI); University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000157699471)·Noether, Bea [University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000229473210)

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Gauge theories can be solved exactly slightly away from the supersymmetric (SUSY) limit softly broken by anomaly mediation when the size of SUSY breaking is much smaller than the dynamical scale (𝑚 ≪ Λ). We show empirical evidence that the near-SUSY limit is continuously connected to the non-SUSY limit (𝑚 ≫ Λ) in SU⁡(𝑁 𝑐 ) gauge theories with 𝑁 𝑓 quarks in the fundamental representation. The evidence includes the behavior of quark bilinear condensate and gluon condensates, light hadron spectra, and consistency with the large 𝑁 𝑐 limit including the Witten-Veneziano relations between the topological susceptibility and 𝑚 𝜂′ and 𝑚 𝜋 . In addition, we present new predictions when 𝑁 𝑓 /𝑁 𝑐 ≳ 𝑂⁡(1).

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Kondo, Dan [Univ. of Tokyo (Japan). Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI)] (ORCID:0000000262683332), Murayama, Hitoshi [Univ. of Tokyo (Japan). Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI); University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000157699471), Noether, Bea [University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000229473210). 2025-12-15. Near-SUSY to non-SUSY crossover. https://doi.org/10.1103/9mjb-bp8g

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