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Title: Three-family particle physics models from global F-theory compactifications

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
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  1. Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States). Department of Physics and Astronomy
  2. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland). Physics Dept.
  3. Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy)
  4. Univ. of Bonn (Germany). Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, Physikalisches Inst.

We construct four-dimensional, globally consistent F-theory models with three chiral generations, whose gauge group and matter representations coincide with those of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, the Pati-Salam Model and the Trinification Model. These models result from compactification on toric hypersurface fibrations X with the choice of base $$\mathbb P^{3}$$. We observe that the F-theory conditions on the G4-flux restrict the number of families to be at least three. We comment on the phenomenology of the models, and for Pati-Salam and Trinification models discuss the Higgsing to the Standard Model. A central point of this work is the construction of globally consistent G4-flux. For this purpose we compute the vertical cohomology HV(2,2)(X) in each case and solve the conditions imposed by matching the M- and F-theoretical 3D Chern-Simons terms. Finally, we explicitly check that the expressions found for the G4-flux allow for a cancelation of D3-brane tadpoles. We also use the integrality of 3D Chern-Simons terms to ensure that our G4-flux solutions are adequately quantized.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0007901
OSTI ID:
1454512
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2015, Issue 8; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer BerlinCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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