Unification with low string scale

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/1998/11/023MaRDI QIDQ1588219zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Bachas

Publication date 3 December 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9807415

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

Abstract: I argue that in open-string theory with hierarchically small (or large) extra dimensions, gauge groups can unify naturally with logarithmically-running coupling constants at the high Kaluza-Klein (or string-winding) scale. This opens up the possibility of rescuing the standard logarithmic unification at $M_{U}sim10^{15-18}$ GeV even if the fundamental-string scale is much lower, at intermediate or possibly even electroweak scales. I also explain, however, why a low type-I string scale may not suffice to obliterate the ultraviolet problems usually associated with the gauge hierarchy.

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• Grand unification at intermediate mass scales through extra dimensions
• Non-critical confining strings and the renormalization group
• Strong coupling unification and extra dimensions
• Anomaly-induced gauge unification and brane/bulk couplings in gravity-localized theories
• GUT scale unification in heterotic strings
• Gauge coupling unification in realistic free-fermionic string models
• A solution to the decompactification problem in chiral heterotic strings
• Induced field theory on the brane world---gravity, extrinsic curvature, and gauge fields
• D-brane physics at low energies
• Finiteness in conventional N=1 GUTs
• D‐branes in Standard Model building, gravity and cosmology
• Scales of string theory
• LARGE DIMENSIONS AND STRING PHYSICS IN FUTURE COLLIDERS
• STRING MODEL BUILDING AT LOW STRING SCALE
• Understanding gauge coupling unification in string theory: A review
• Branes and the gauge hierarchy.
• A proposal for lowering the coupling unification scale
• On the effective theory of low-scale orientifold string vacua

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