Coleman-Weinberg Corrections to SUSY-breaking from N=2 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory to Adjoint QCD

It has previously been argued that the (3+1)-dimensional quantum field theory with SU(N) gauge group and 2 flavors of adjoint Weyl fermions ("adjoint QCD") exhibits a confining, chiral symmetry breaking phase at strong coupling via the condensation of a fermion bilinear. It is possible to connect adjoint QCD to N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory via a supersymmetry-breaking renormalization group flow, by adding a mass to the N=2 vector multiplet scalar. A semi-classical analysis of this supersymmetry-breaking scenario has previously predicted a phase transition to the expected confining phase of adjoint QCD. In this work, we explore the effect of including the leading 1-loop Coleman-Weinberg terms in the effective potential for N=2,3, testing the robustness of the semi-classical predictions to quantum corrections. We find both analytic and numeric evidence supporting the conclusion of a phase transition to a confining, chiral symmetry breaking phase, and characterize the size of corrections to the transition scale.