AMSB in $Sp(N_c)$ Gauge Theories

We present a careful study of the chiral symmetry breaking minima and other potential minima in supersymmetric symplectic QCD ($Sp(N_c)$ with $N_f$ flavors) perturbed by Anomaly Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking (AMSB). Although the case of $N_f=N_c+1$ requires particular care due to the inherently strongly coupled nature of the quantum modified moduli space, we are able to show that all $Sp(N_c)$ theories to which AMSB can be applied ($N_f<3(N_c+1)$) possess stable chiral symmetry breaking minima, which are plausibly continuously connected to the vacua of QCD-like $Sp(N_c)$ theories for large SUSY breaking, and are protected from runaways to incalculable minima.