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A summary of this study. (Leftmost column) In 1994, Nathan Seiberg and Edward Witten proposed a model with extended supersymmetry to show confinement was a consequence of Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD). (Rightmost column) In 1961, Yoichiro Nambu proposed a concept of QCD called the chiral symmetry breaking, which provided a real world representation of the strong force. (Centre column) In 2021, Hitoshi Murayama used anomaly mediation, which he and collaborators proposed in 1998, to break supersymmetry, allowing him to connect the Seiberg and Witten model to the real world that Nambu had proposed. As a result, Murayama was able to find theoretical proof of Nambu's prediction that pions are light because chiral symmetry breaking occurs in QCD.

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