Non-Higgsable QCD and the standard model spectrum in F-theory
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Grassi, Antonella
Halverson, James
Shaneson, Julius
Taylor, Washington
Date Issued
January 2015
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Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer-Verlag
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Grassi, Antonella, James Halverson, Julius Shaneson, and Washington Taylor. “Non-Higgsable QCD and the Standard Model Spectrum in F-Theory.” J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, no. 1 (January 2015).
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Abstract
Many four-dimensional supersymmetric compactifications of F-theory contain gauge groups that cannot be spontaneously broken through geometric deformations. These “non-Higgsable clusters” include realizations of SU(3), SU(2), and SU(3) × SU(2), but no SU(n) gauge groups or factors with n > 3. We study possible realizations of the standard model in F-theory that utilize non-Higgsable clusters containing SU(3) factors and show that there are three distinct possibilities. In one, fields with the non-abelian gauge charges of the standard model matter fields are localized at a single locus where non-perturbative SU(3) and SU(2) seven-branes intersect; cancellation of gauge anomalies implies that the simplest four-dimensional chiral SU(3) × SU(2) × U(1) model that may arise in this context exhibits standard model families. We identify specific geometries that realize non-Higgsable SU(3) and SU(3) × SU(2) sectors. This kind of scenario provides a natural mechanism that could explain the existence of an unbroken QCD sector, or more generally the appearance of light particles and symmetries at low energy scales.
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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/10.1007/jhep01(2015)086
