165 research outputs found
N=1 Finite Unified Theories - Predictions and Dualities
N = 1, all-loop Finite Unified Theories (FUTs) are very interesting not only
since they realize an old theoretical dream, but also due the remarkable
predictive power of particular models as well as for providing candidates that
might shed light in non-perturbative Physics.
Here we discuss (a) the recent developments concerning the soft supersymmetry
breaking (SSB) sector of these theories and the resulting predictions in very
interesting realistic models, and (b) the results of a recent search for duals
of N=1, all-loop FUTs.Comment: Latex, 8 pages; talk given at ``31st Internat. Symp. Ahrenshoop
Theory of Elementary Particles'' Buckow, Sept. 2-6, 9
Strongly-interacting fermions from a higher-dimensional unified gauge theory
The method of coset-space dimensional reduction is employed in order to
proceed from a gauged E_8 * E_8' unified theory defined in 10 dimensions to 4
dimensions. The resulting theory comprises the Standard Model along with a
strongly-interacting fermion sector which breaks the electroweak symmetry
dynamically at the right scale.Comment: 12 LaTeX pages, version to be published in Physics Letters
-term due to the non-universal supersymmetry breaking and the Higgs mass
We propose a solution to the -problem due to the non-universal soft
supersymmetry breaking in a class of supersymmetric extensions of the SM with
an extra U(1) and the NMSSM. Our scenario resembles an earlier one which has
been proposed as a solution to the -problem in the framework of similar
models but it has rather different features from that. Theoretically crucial
points in the present scenario are the realization of the required
non-universal soft supersymmetry breaking parameters and the concern to avoid
the vacuum instability due to tadpoles. We discuss them in some detail. In
particular, on the non-universal soft supersymmetry breaking we discuss the
superstring and the field theory with reduction of couplings possibilities. We
also study the weak scale radiative symmetry breaking in the considered models
and estimate the upper mass bound of the lightest neutral Higgs scalar. The
latter tends to be smaller in the present scenario as compared to the previous
one.Comment: LaTeX, 28 pages, 2 eps-figures included into the text, minor chang
Higher-Dimensional Unified Theories with Fuzzy Extra Dimensions
Theories defined in higher than four dimensions have been used in various
frameworks and have a long and interesting history. Here we review certain
attempts, developed over the last years, towards the construction of unified
particle physics models in the context of higher-dimensional gauge theories
with non-commutative extra dimensions. These ideas have been developed in two
complementary ways, namely (i) starting with a higher-dimensional gauge theory
and dimensionally reducing it to four dimensions over fuzzy internal spaces and
(ii) starting with a four-dimensional, renormalizable gauge theory and
dynamically generating fuzzy extra dimensions. We describe the above approaches
and moreover we discuss the inclusion of fermions and the construction of
realistic chiral theories in this context
WKB Approximation in Noncommutative Gravity
We consider the quasi-commutative approximation to a noncommutative geometry
defined as a generalization of the moving frame formalism. The relation which
exists between noncommutativity and geometry is used to study the properties of
the high-frequency waves on the flat background.Comment: This is a contribution to the Proc. of the Seventh International
Conference ''Symmetry in Nonlinear Mathematical Physics'' (June 24-30, 2007,
Kyiv, Ukraine), published in SIGMA (Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry:
Methods and Applications) at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA
Orbifolds, fuzzy spheres and chiral fermions
Starting with a N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions with
gauge group SU(3N) we perform an orbifold projection leading to a N=1
supersymmetric SU(N)^3 Yang-Mills theory with matter supermultiplets in
bifundamental representations of the gauge group, which is chiral and anomaly
free. Subsequently, we search for vacua of the projected theory which can be
interpreted as spontaneously generated twisted fuzzy spheres. We show that by
adding the appropriate soft supersymmetry breaking terms we can indeed reveal
such vacua. Three cases are studied, where the gauge group is spontaneously
broken further to the low-energy gauge groups SU(4)xSU(2)xSU(2), SU(4)^3 and
SU(3)^3. Such models behave in intermediate scales as higher-dimensional
theories with a finite Kaluza-Klein tower, while their low-energy physics is
governed by the corresponding zero-modes and exhibit chirality in the fermionic
sector. The most interesting case from the phenomenological point of view turns
out to be the SU(3)^3 unified theory, which has several interesting features
such as (i) it can be promoted to a finite theory, (ii) it breaks further
spontaneously first to the MSSM and then to SU(3)xU(1)_{em} due to its own
scalar sector, i.e. without the need of additional superfields and (iii) the
corresponding vacua lead to spontaneously generated fuzzy spheres.Comment: 24 pages, minor changes, references added, matching with the
published versio
The Top-Bottom Hierarchy from Gauge-Yukawa Unification
The idea of Gauge-Yukawa Unification (GYU) based on the principle of
reduction of couplings is elucidated. We show how the observed top-bottom mass
hierarchy can be explained in terms of supersymmetric GYU by considering an
example of the minimal supersymmetric GUT.Comment: 13 pages, LaTeX and epsf package, Postscript figures. To be published
in the proceedings of the Yukawa International Seminar '9
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