Gauge symmetry breaking in superconformal orbifolds

Journal Article · Wed Mar 06 23:00:00 EST 1991 · Modern Physics Letters A; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217732391000610· OSTI ID:5006576

Greene, B R ^[1]; Plesser, M R ^[2]; Rusjan, E; Wang, X M ^[3]

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1. Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States). Newman Lab. of Nuclear Studies
2. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States). Lyman Lab. of Physics
3. Bartol Research Foundation of the Franklin Inst., Newark, DE (United States)

This paper studies the construction of (2.0) theories from orbifolds of N = 2 minimal superconformal string compactifications with non-trivial Wilson loops. In particular, we exploit the connection between geometrical and exactly soluble string vacua to arrive at a mean of analyzing Calabi-Yau orbifolds containing Wilson loops associated with non-free group actions, breaking the E{sub 6} gauge symmetry of the model as well the shadow E{sub 8} gauge symmetry group. The authors apply their results to recently proposed three generation constructions of this sort and find spectra which differ from previous claims and which possess exceptionally desirable phenomenological properties.

• Sponsoring Organization: NSF; National Science Foundation, Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 5006576
• Journal Information: Modern Physics Letters A; (United States), Journal Name: Modern Physics Letters A; (United States) Vol. 6:7; ISSN 0217-7323; ISSN MPLAE
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
COMPACTIFICATION
COMPOSITE MODELS
CONFORMAL MAPPING
EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL
FIELD THEORIES
GAUGE INVARIANCE
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
MAPPING
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
PARTICLE MODELS
QUARK MODEL
STRING MODELS
SUPERSYMMETRY
SYMMETRY
SYMMETRY BREAKING
TOPOLOGICAL MAPPING
TRANSFORMATIONS
WILSON LOOP