Vacuum geometry and the search for new physics

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2006.05.026MaRDI QIDQ712733zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yang-Hui He, Brent Nelson, James Gray, Vishnu Jejjala

Publication date 18 October 2012

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0511062

zbMATH Keywords

special geometryvacuum space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We propose a new guiding principle for phenomenology: special geometry in the vacuum space. New algorithmic methods which efficiently compute geometric properties of the vacuum space of N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories are described. We illustrate the technique on subsectors of the MSSM. The fragility of geometric structure that we find in the moduli space motivates phenomenologically realistic deformations of the superpotential, while arguing against others. Special geometry in the vacuum may therefore signal the presence of string physics underlying the low-energy effective theory.

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