  We investigate the infrared dynamics of a nonsupersymmetric SU(X) gauge
theory featuring an adjoint fermion, Nf Dirac flavors and an Higgs-like complex
Nf x Nf scalar which is a gauge singlet. We first establish the existence of an
infrared stable perturbative fixed point and then investigate the spectrum near
this point. We demonstrate that this theory naturally features a light scalar
degree of freedom to be identified with the dilaton and elucidate its physical
properties. We compute the spectrum and demonstrate that at low energy the
nonperturbative part of the spectrum of the theory is the one of pure
supersymmetric Yang-Mills. We can therefore determine the exact nonperturbative
fermion condensate and deduce relevant properties of the nonperturbative
spectrum of the theory. We also show that the intrinsic scale of super
Yang-Mills is exponentially smaller than the scale associated to the breaking
of conformal and chiral symmetry of the theory.
