Published September 15, 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Phenomenology of a three-family standardlike string model

  • 1. Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (United Kingdom)
  • 2. Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 (United States)
  • 4. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (United States)
  • 5. School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 (United States)

Description

We discuss the phenomenology of a three-family supersymmetric standardlike model derived from the orientifold construction, in which the ordinary chiral states are localized at the intersection of branes at angles. In addition to the standard model group, there are two additional U(1)' symmetries, one of which has family nonuniversal and therefore flavor changing couplings, and a quasihidden non-Abelian sector which becomes strongly coupled above the electroweak scale. The perturbative spectrum contains a fourth family of exotic [SU(2)-singlet] quarks and leptons, in which, however, the left-chiral states have unphysical electric charges. It is argued that these decouple from the low energy spectrum due to hidden sector charge confinement, and that anomaly matching requires the physical left-chiral states to be composites. The model has multiple Higgs doublets and additional exotic states. The moduli-dependent predictions for the gauge couplings are discussed. The strong coupling agrees with experiment for reasonable moduli, but the electroweak couplings are too small

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
66
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 066004-066004.12
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2002 The American Physical Society