Higgs versus matter in the heterotic landscape

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2008.09.011zbMATH Open1192.81368arXiv0807.1046OpenAlexW2014941654MaRDI QIDQ985789FDOQ985789

W. Buchmüller, Jonas Schmidt

Publication date: 6 August 2010

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

Abstract: In supersymmetric extensions of the standard model there is no basic difference between Higgs and matter fields, which leads to the well known problem of potentially large baryon and lepton number violating interactions. Although these unwanted couplings can be forbidden by continuous or discrete global symmetries, a theoretical guiding principle for their choice is missing. We examine this problem for a class of vacua of the heterotic string compactified on an orbifold. As expected, in general there is no difference between Higgs and matter. However, certain vacua happen to possess unbroken matter parity and discrete $R$-symmetries which single out Higgs fields in the low energy effective field theory. We present a method how to identify maximal vacua in which the perturbative contribution to the $mu$-term and the expectation value of the superpotential vanish. Two vacua are studied in detail, one with two pairs of Higgs doublets and one with partial gauge-Higgs unification.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1046

zbMATH Keywords

orbifoldheterotic string compactificationgauge-Higgs unificationspecial vacua

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topology and geometry of orbifolds (57R18) 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)

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