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Title: Adjoint Majorana QCD2 at finite N
A bstract The mass spectrum of 1 + 1-dimensional SU( N ) gauge theory coupled to a Majorana fermion in the adjoint representation has been studied in the large N limit using Light-Cone Quantization. Here we extend this approach to theories with small values of N , exhibiting explicit results for N = 2 , 3, and 4. In the context of Discretized Light-Cone Quantization, we develop a procedure based on the Cayley-Hamilton theorem for determining which states of the large N theory become null at finite N . For the low-lying bound states, we find that the squared masses divided by g 2 N , where g is the gauge coupling, have very weak dependence on N . The coefficients of the 1 /N 2 corrections to their large N values are surprisingly small. When the adjoint fermion is massless, we observe exact degeneracies that we explain in terms of a Kac-Moody algebra construction and charge conjugation symmetry. When the squared mass of the adjoint fermion is tuned to g 2 N/π , we find evidence that the spectrum exhibits boson-fermion degeneracies, in agreement with the supersymmetry of the model at any value of N .  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2209997 2111977
NSF-PAR ID:
10428493
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume:
2023
Issue:
4
ISSN:
1029-8479
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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