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In this work, we present a comprehensive study of the phase diagram of supersymmetric QCD with Nf = Nc + 1 flavors perturbed by Anomaly Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking (AMSB). We extend the previous analyses on s-confining ASQCD theories in three different directions. We show that the existence of the QCD-like vacuum is independent of the size of the SUSY breaking parameter. We further expand the analysis of these models by including two and three-loop contributions to investigate the robustness and limitations of the results. Finally, we include the leading effect of higher-order Kähler terms to investigate the stability of the phase diagram as we approach the confining energy scale. The analysis with higher order Kähler terms is also extended for Nc = 2 for which AMSB alone gives inconclusive results.
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We would like to thank Yang Bai, Benjamin Grinstein, Julio Parra-Martinez, Yael Shadmi, Yuri Shirman, and Ofri Telem for useful discussions. C.H.dL. and D.S. are supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). C.H.dL is supported in part by the 2023 IPP Early Career Theory Fellowship.
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de Lima, C.H., Stolarski, D. On s-confining SUSY-QCD with anomaly mediation. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 20 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2023)020
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