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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Anomalous Supersymmetry
Georgios Katsianis1,2, Ioannis Papadimitriou3, Kostas Skenderis1,2
1STAG Research Centre, Highfield, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ Southampton, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
We show that supersymmetry is anomalous in N=1 superconformal quantum field theories (SCFTs) with an anomalous R symmetry. This anomaly was originally found in holographic SCFTs at strong coupling. Here we show that this anomaly is present, in general, and demonstrate it for the massless superconformal Wess-Zumino model via a one-loop computation. The anomaly appears first in four-point functions of two supercurrents either with two R currents or with an R current and an energy-momentum tensor. In fact, the Wess-Zumino consistency conditions together with the standard R-symmetry anomaly imply the existence of the anomaly. We outline the implications of this anomaly.
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