Nordita HEP Local Seminars

Why is the Conformal Window of SQCD Conformal?

by Matthew Buican (CERN)

Europe/Stockholm
Description
Often when talking about fixed points of the renormalization group that have certain nice properties like unitarity and Poincare invariance, we simply assume that the theory is conformal. As I will explain, this has never been proven in general. However, I will argue that unitarity and R-symmetry are enough to show that some classes of four dimensional fixed points are necessarily superconformal. In particular, I will argue that the conformal window of SQCD, which is widely assumed to be conformal, is indeed conformal.