A realistic unified gauge coupling from the micro-landscape of orbifold GUTs

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.06.030zbMATH Open1196.81259arXiv0812.4267OpenAlexW1985137184MaRDI QIDQ1960085FDOQ1960085

Christian Gross, Arthur Hebecker

Publication date: 12 October 2010

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider 5-dimensional supersymmetric field theories where supersymmetry is broken by the Scherk-Schwarz mechanism (or, equivalently, by the F-term VEV of the radion). In such models, the radion effective potential is calculable in terms of the 5d gauge coupling, the UV cutoff of the 5d field theory, and the field content. We provide simple, explicit formulae for the leading part of the two-loop effective potential. Our analysis applies in particular to 5d orbifold GUTs motivated by heterotic orbifold models. We focus on potentially realistic models of this type and make the additional assumption that the UV cutoff scale is identical with the strong-coupling scale of the 5d gauge theory. Given our stabilization mechanism, the 5d radius is now fixed in terms of the 5d gauge coupling and the field content of the model. This implies a prediction for the effective 4d gauge coupling only in terms of the field content of the model. Given the `micro-landscape' provided by the different possible distributions of Standard Model fields between bulk and branes, we find a subset of models with a realistic unified gauge coupling. We also discuss two possibilities for the `uplifting' of our SUSY-breaking AdS vacua: One is based on the possible presence of a weak warping, the other appeals to F-terms in an extra brane-localized SUSY-breaking sector.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4267

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zbMATH Keywords

heterotic orbifold modelsScherk-Schwarz mechanismradion effective potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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