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We revisit the study of singular points in \(\mathcal{N} = 2\) SQCD with classical gauge groups. Using a technique proposed recently by Gaiotto, Seiberg and Tachikawa we find that the low-energy physics at the maximally singular point involves two superconformal sectors coupled to an infrared free SU(2) gauge group. When one softly breaks extended supersymmetry to \(\mathcal{N} = 1\) adding a mass term for the chiral multiplet in the adjoint representation, a finite number of vacua remain and the theory becomes confining. Our analysis allows us to identify the low-energy physics at these distinguished points in the moduli space. In some cases, which we will describe in detail, two sectors coupled to an infrared free SU(2) gauge group emerge as before. For USp and SO gauge groups one of these sectors is always free, contrary to the SU case.
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Giacomelli, S. Singular points in \(\mathcal{N} = 2\) SQCD. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 40 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2012)040
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