76 research outputs found
String Loop Threshold Corrections for N=1 Generalized Coxeter Orbifolds
We discuss the calculation of threshold corrections to gauge coupling
constants for the, only, non-decomposable class of abelian (2, 2) symmetric N=1
four dimensional heterotic orbifold models, where the internal twist is
realized as a generalized Coxeter automorphism. The latter orbifold was singled
out in earlier work as the only N=1 heterotic orbifold that satisfy the
phenomenological criteria of correct minimal gauge coupling unification and
cancellation of target space modular anomalies.Comment: 10 pages, LaTe
SU(5) Unified Theories from Intersecting Branes
We discuss the first string theory examples of three generation
non-supersymmetric SU(5) and {\em flipped} SU(5) GUTS, which break to the
Standard model at low energy, without extra matter and/or gauge group factors.
Our GUT examples are based on IIA orientifolds with D6-branes
intersecting at non-trivial angles. These theories necessarily satisfy RR
tadpoles and are free of NSNS tadpoles as the complex structure moduli are
frozen (even though a dilaton tadpole remains) to discrete values. We identify
appropriately the bifundamental Higgses responsible for electroweak symmetry
breaking. In this way, the neutrino see-saw mechanism get nicely realized in
these constructions. Moreover, as baryon number is not a gauged symmetry gauge
mediated dimension six operators do contribute to proton decay; however proton
lifetime may be safely enhanced by appropriately choosing a high GUT scale. An
accompanying natural doublet-triplet splitting guarantees the suppression of
scalar mediated proton decay modes and the stability of triplet scalar masses
against higher dimensional non-renormalizable operators.Comment: 26 pages, 5 figures; no changes, one comment added in the
introductio
The open story of the magnetic fluxes
We discuss the effects of oblique internal magnetic fields on the spectrum of
type I superstrings compactified on tori. In particular we derive general
formulae for the magnetic shifts and multiplicities of open strings connecting
D9-branes with arbitrary magnetic fluxes. We discuss the flux induced potential
and offer an interpretation of the stabilization of R-R moduli associated to
deformations of the complex structure of T^6 in terms of non-derivative mixing
with NS-NS moduli. Finally we briefly comment on how to extract other low
energy couplings and generalize our results to toroidal orbifolds and other
configurations governed by rational conformal field theories on the worldsheet.Comment: 36 pages, LaTeX, References adde
Deformed Intersecting D6-Brane GUTS I
By employing D6-branes intersecting at angles in type IIA strings, we
construct {\em four stack string GUT models} (PS-I class), that contain at low
energy {\em exactly the three generation Standard model} with no extra matter
and/or extra gauge group factors. These classes of models are based on the
Pati-Salam (PS) gauge group . They
represent deformations around the quark and lepton basic intersection number
structure. The models possess the same phenomenological characteristics of some
recently discussed examples (PS-A class) of four stack PS GUTS. Namely, there
are no colour triplet couplings to mediate proton decay and proton is stable as
baryon number is a gauged symmetry. Neutrinos get masses of the correct sizes.
Also the mass relation
at the GUT scale is recovered.
Moreover, we clarify the novel role of {\em extra} branes, the latter having
non-trivial intersection numbers with quarks and leptons and creating scalar
singlets, needed for the satisfaction of RR tadpole cancellation conditions.
The presence of N=1 supersymmetry in sectors involving the {\em extra} branes
is equivalent to the, model dependent, orthogonality conditions of the U(1)'s
surviving massless the generalized Green-Schwarz mechanism.
The use of
{\em extra} branes creates mass couplings that predict the appearance of
light fermion doublets up to the scale of electroweak scale symmetry breaking.Comment: 45 pages, 1 figure, LaTex, The discussion on the hidden orthogonal
U(1) D6-branes extende
Constraining the string scale: from Planck to Weak and back again
String and field theory ideas have greatly influenced each other since the so
called second string revolution. We review this interrelation paying particular
attention to its phenomenological implications. Our guiding principle is the
radical shift in the way that we think about the fundamental scale, in
particular the way in which string models have been able to accommodate values
from the Planck GeV down to the electroweak scale
TeV.Comment: Invited review aimed at an experimental audienc
Supersymmetric Intersecting Branes on the Type IIA T^6/Z_4 orientifold
We study supersymmetric intersecting D6-branes wrapping 3-cycles in the Type
IIA T^6/Z_4 orientifold background. As a new feature, the 3-cycles in this
orbifold space arise both from the untwisted and the Z_2 twisted sectors. We
present an integral basis for the homology lattice, H_3(M,Z), in terms of
fractional 3-cycles, for which the intersection form involves the Cartan matrix
of E8. We show that these fractional D6-branes can be used to construct
supersymmetric brane configurations realizing a three generation Pati-Salam
model. Via brane recombination processes preserving supersymmetry, this GUT
model can be broken down to a standard-like model.Comment: 48 pages, TeX, harvmac, 8 figures, v4: some signs correcte
Seesaw scales and the steps from the Standard Model towards superstring-inspired flipped E_6
Recently in connection with Superstring theory E_8 and E_6 unifications
became very promising. In the present paper we have investigated a number of
available paths from the Standard Model (SM) to the E_6 unification,
considering a chain of flipped models following the extension of the SM:
SU(3)_C\times SU(2)_L\times U(1)_Y \to
SU(3)_C\times SU(2)_L\times U(1)_X \times U(1)_Z \to
SU(5)\times U(1)_X \to
SU(5)\times U(1)_{Z1} \times U(1)_{X1} \to
SO(10) \times U(1)_{X1} \to
SO(10) \times U(1)_{Z2}\times U(1)_{X2} \to
E_6\times U(1)_{X2} or E_6,
Also we have considered a chain with a left-right symmetry:
SU(3)_C\times SU(2)_L\times U(1)_Y \to
SU(3)_C\times SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R\times U(1)_X\times U(1)_Z \to
SU(4)_C\times SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R\times U(1)_Z \to
SO(10)\times U(1)_Z \to
E_6.
We have presented four examples including non-supersymmetric and
supersymmetric extensions of the SM and different contents of the Higgs bosons
providing the breaking of the flipped SO(10) and SU(5) down to the SM. It was
shown that the final unification E_6\times U(1) or E_6 at the (Planck) GUT
scale M_{SSG} depends on the number of the Higgs boson representations
considered in theory.Comment: 25 pages, 7 figure
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