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We construct an \( \mathcal{N} = 2 \) supersymmetric generalization of the \( \mathcal{N} = 1 \) supercurrent formalism of Komargodski and Seiberg (KS) and use it to show that \( \mathcal{N} = 2 \) theories with linear superconformal anomalies cannot break SUSY under certain broad assumptions. This result suggests that there are no metastable SUSY breaking vacua in a large class of theories that includes \( \mathcal{N} = 2 \) Super Yang-Mills (SYM).
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ArXiv ePrint: 1005.3012
On leave from CPHT(UMR CNRS 7644) Ecole Polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau. (Ignatios Antoniadis)
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Antoniadis, I., Buican, M. Goldstinos, supercurrents and metastable SUSY breaking in \( \mathcal{N} = 2 \) supersymmetric gauge theories. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 101 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2011)101
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