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We study the integrability properties of planar \( \mathcal{N}=2 \) superconformal field theories in four dimensions. We show that the spin chain associated to the planar dilation operator of \( \mathcal{N}=2 \) superconformal QCD fails to be integrable at two loops. In our analysis we focus on a closed SU(2|1) sector, whose two-loop spin chain we fix by symmetry arguments (up to a few undetermined coefficients). It turns out that the Yang-Baxter equation for magnon scattering is not satisfied in this sector. On the other hand, we suggest that the closed SU(2, 1|2) sector, which exists in any \( \mathcal{N}=2 \) superconformal gauge theory, may be integrable to all loops. We summarize the known results in the literature that are consistent with this conjecture.
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Gadde, A., Liendo, P., Rastelli, L. et al. On the integrability of planar \( \mathcal{N}=2 \) superconformal gauge theories. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 15 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2013)015
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