2006/06/30 by W. Buchmüller, Wilfried Buchmuller, Koichi Hamaguchi +2 · 8 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.06.028
published as Nucl.Phys.B785:149-209,2007 · to appear in Nucl. Phys. B
arxiv created 2007/07/06 · openalex publication_date 2007/07/18 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We desribe in detail a Z6 orbifold compactification of the heterotic E8 x E8 string which leads to the (supersymmetric) standard model gauge group and matter content. The quarks and leptons appear as three 16-plets of SO(10), two of which are localized at fixed points with local SO(10) symmetry. The model has supersymmetric vacua without exotics at low energies and is consistent with gauge coupling unification. Supersymmetry can be broken via gaugino condensation in the hidden sector. The model has large vacuum degeneracy. Certain vacua with approximate B-L symmetry have attractive phenomenological features. The top quark Yukawa coupling arises from gauge interactions and is of the order of the gauge couplings. The other Yukawa couplings are suppressed by powers of standard model singlet fields, similarly to the Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism.