Published October 3, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Scherk-Schwarz breaking and intersecting branes

  • 1. Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center for Theoretical Physics, Department fuer Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Theresienstr 37, 80333 Munich (Germany) and Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Universita di Torino, Via P. Giuria 1, 10125 Turin (Italy)
  • 2. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Milano, INFN sezione di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milan (Italy)
  • 3. High Energy and Elementary Particle Physics Division, Department of Physics, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion (Greece)

Description

We study the effect of Scherk-Schwarz deformations on intersecting branes. Non-chiral fermions in any representation of the Chan-Paton gauge group generically acquire a tree-level mass dependent on the compactification radius and the brane wrapping numbers. This offers an elegant solution to one of the long-standing problems in intersecting-brane-world models where the ubiquitous presence of massless non-chiral fermions is a clear embarrassment for any attempt to describe the Standard Model of particle physics

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.07.025;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-th/0503179v1;
PII
S0550-3213(05)00579-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
725
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 115-154
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
37093825
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
CHIRALITY; COMPACTIFICATION; DEFORMATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; MASS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; STANDARD MODEL
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS

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Copyright (c) 2005 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.