Diversity in the tail of the intersecting brane landscape
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Rosenhaus, Vladimir
Taylor, Washington
Date Issued
June 2009
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Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer-Verlag
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Rosenhaus, Vladimir, and Washington Taylor. “Diversity in the Tail of the Intersecting Brane Landscape.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2009, no. 06 (June 1, 2009): 073–073.
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Abstract
Techniques are developed for exploring the complete space of intersecting brane models on an orientifold. The classification of all solutions for the widely-studied T[superscript 6]/Z[subscript 2] × Z[subscript 2] orientifold is made possible by computing all combinations of branes with negative tadpole contributions. This provides the necessary information to systematically and efficiently identify all models in this class with specific characteristics. In particular, all ways in which a desired group G can be realized by a system of intersecting branes can be enumerated in polynomial time. We identify all distinct brane realizations of the gauge groups SU(3) × SU(2) and SU(3) × SU(2) × U(1) which can be embedded in any model which is compatible with the tadpole and SUSY constraints. We compute the distribution of the number of generations of ''quarks'' and find that 3 is neither suppressed nor particularly enhanced compared to other odd generation numbers. The overall distribution of models is found to have a long tail. Despite disproportionate suppression of models in the tail by K-theory constraints, the tail of the distribution contains much of the diversity of low-energy physics structure.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/06/073
