Low Energy Supersymmetry from the Heterotic String Landscape

doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.181602

Title: Low Energy Supersymmetry from the Heterotic String Landscape

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We study possible correlations between properties of the observable and hidden sectors in heterotic string theory. Specifically, we analyze the case of the Z{sub 6}-II orbifold compactification which produces a significant number of models with the spectrum of the supersymmetric standard model. We find that requiring realistic features does affect the hidden sector such that hidden sector gauge group factors SU(4) and SO(8) are favored. In the context of gaugino condensation, this implies low energy supersymmetry breaking.

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Lebedev, Oleg ^[1]; Nilles, Hans-Peter; Ramos-Sanchez, Saul; Vaudrevange, Patrick K. S. ^[2]; Raby, Stuart; Wingerter, Akin ^[3]; Ratz, Michael ^[4]

Theory Division, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)
Physikalisches Institut der Universitaet Bonn, Nussallee 12, 53115 Bonn (Germany)
Department of Physics, Ohio State University, 191 W. Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210 (United States)
Physik Department T30, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, James-Franck-Strasse, 85748 Garching (Germany)

Publication Date:: Fri May 04 00:00:00 EDT 2007

OSTI Identifier:: 20951327

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Resource Relation:: Journal Name: Physical Review Letters; Journal Volume: 98; Journal Issue: 18; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.181602; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; COMPACTIFICATION; SO-8 GROUPS; STANDARD MODEL; STRING MODELS; STRING THEORY; SU-4 GROUPS; SUPERSYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING

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                    Lebedev, Oleg, Nilles, Hans-Peter, Ramos-Sanchez, Saul, Vaudrevange, Patrick K. S., Raby, Stuart, Wingerter, Akin, and Ratz, Michael. Low Energy Supersymmetry from the Heterotic String Landscape.  United States: N. p., 2007. 
        Web.  doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.181602.

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                    Lebedev, Oleg, Nilles, Hans-Peter, Ramos-Sanchez, Saul, Vaudrevange, Patrick K. S., Raby, Stuart, Wingerter, Akin, & Ratz, Michael. Low Energy Supersymmetry from the Heterotic String Landscape.  United States.  doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.181602.

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                    Lebedev, Oleg, Nilles, Hans-Peter, Ramos-Sanchez, Saul, Vaudrevange, Patrick K. S., Raby, Stuart, Wingerter, Akin, and Ratz, Michael. Fri .  
        "Low Energy Supersymmetry from the Heterotic String Landscape".  United States.  
        doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.181602.

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  title        = {Low Energy Supersymmetry from the Heterotic String Landscape},

  author       = {Lebedev, Oleg and Nilles, Hans-Peter and Ramos-Sanchez, Saul and Vaudrevange, Patrick K. S. and Raby, Stuart and Wingerter, Akin and Ratz, Michael},

  abstractNote = {We study possible correlations between properties of the observable and hidden sectors in heterotic string theory. Specifically, we analyze the case of the Z{sub 6}-II orbifold compactification which produces a significant number of models with the spectrum of the supersymmetric standard model. We find that requiring realistic features does affect the hidden sector such that hidden sector gauge group factors SU(4) and SO(8) are favored. In the context of gaugino condensation, this implies low energy supersymmetry breaking.},

  doi          = {10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.181602},

  journal      = {Physical Review Letters},

  number       = 18,

  volume       = 98,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Fri May 04 00:00:00 EDT 2007},

  month        = {Fri May 04 00:00:00 EDT 2007}

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