Non-higgsable QCD and the standard model spectrum in F-theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2015)086zbMATH Open1388.81924arXiv1409.8295MaRDI QIDQ1754801FDOQ1754801

Authors: Antonella Grassi, James Halverson, Julius L. Shaneson, Washington Taylor 

Publication date: 31 May 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Many four-dimensional supersymmetric compactifications of F-theory contain gauge groups that cannot be spontaneously broken through geometric deformations. These "non-Higgsable clusters" include realizations of $SU(3)$, $SU(2)$, and $SU(3)imesSU(2)$, but no $SU(n)$ gauge groups or factors with $n>3$. We study possible realizations of the standard model in F-theory that utilize non-Higgsable clusters containing $SU(3)$ factors and show that there are three distinct possibilities. In one, fields with the non-abelian gauge charges of the standard model matter fields are localized at a single locus where non-perturbative $SU(3)$ and $SU(2)$ seven-branes intersect; cancellation of gauge anomalies implies that the simplest four-dimensional chiral $SU(3)imesSU(2)imesU(1)$ model that may arise in this context exhibits standard model families. We identify specific geometries that realize non-Higgsable $SU(3)$ and $SU(3)imesSU(2)$ sectors. This kind of scenario provides a natural mechanism that could explain the existence of an unbroken QCD sector, or more generally the appearance of light particles and symmetries at low energy scales.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.8295

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zbMATH Keywords

F-theoryintersecting branes modelssuperstring vacua

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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