A KIND OF PREDICTION FROM STRING PHENOMENOLOGY: EXTRA MATTER AT LOW ENERGY

DOI10.1142/S021773230702347XzbMATH Open1129.81343arXiv0704.0987MaRDI QIDQ5294347FDOQ5294347

Authors: Carlos Muñoz 

Publication date: 24 July 2007

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We review the possibility that the Supersymmetric Standard Model arises from orbifold constructions of the E_8 x E_8 Heterotic Superstring, and the phenomenological properties that such a model should have. In particular, trying to solve the discrepancy between the unification scale predicted by the Heterotic Superstring (g_{GUT}x5.27x10^{17} GeV) and the value deduced from LEP experiments (2x10^{16} GeV), we will predict the presence at low energies of three families of Higgses and vector-like colour triplets. Our approach relies on the Fayet-Iliopoulos breaking, and this is also a crucial ingredient, together with having three Higgs families, to obtain in these models an interesting pattern of fermion masses and mixing angles at the renormalizable lebel. Namely, after the gauge breaking some physical particles appear combined with other states, and the Yukawa couplings are modified in a well controlled way. On the other hand, dangerous flavour-changing neutral currents may appear when fermions of a given charge receive their mass through couplings with several Higgs doublets. We will address this potential problem, finding that viable scenarios can be obtained for a reasonable light Higgs spectrum.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0987

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zbMATH Keywords

orbifoldsstringsphenomenology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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• Gauge coupling unification and light exotica in string theory
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• Implications of string constraints for exotic matter and Z\({}^{\prime}\) s beyond the standard model

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