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Hierarchies from D-brane Instantons in Globally Defined Calabi-Yau Orientifolds

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 (United States)

We construct the first globally consistent semirealistic type I string vacua on an elliptically fibered manifold where the zero modes of the Euclidean D1-instanton sector allow for the generation of nonperturbative Majorana masses of an intermediate scale. In another class of global models, a D1-brane instanton can generate a Polonyi-type superpotential breaking supersymmetry at an exponentially suppressed scale.

OSTI ID:
21134064
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 25 Vol. 100; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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