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E6 grand unified theory with three generations from heterotic string

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-06-02 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We construct two more supersymmetric E6 grand unified models with three generations within the framework of Z12 asymmetric orbifold compactification of the heterotic string theory. Such an asymmetric orbifold is missing in the classification in the literature, which concludes that only one E6 model is possible. In both of the new models, an adjoint Higgs field is obtained in virtue of the diagonal embedding method. This method mods out the three E6 factors of an even self-dual momentum-lattice by a permutation symmetry. In order to realize the E6^3 even self-dual lattice, we utilize the lattice engineering technique. Among the eight possible orbifold actions in our setup, two lead to new E6 models. Though these models still share the unsatisfactory issues with the known one, our discovery raises hopes that excellent models that solve all the problems in the supersymmetric grand unified models will be found in this framework.

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@article{arxiv.1012.1690,
  title  = {E6 grand unified theory with three generations from heterotic string},
  author = {Motoharu Ito and Shogo Kuwakino and Nobuhiro Maekawa and Sanefumi Moriyama and Keijiro Takahashi and Kazuaki Takei and Shunsuke Teraguchi and Toshifumi Yamashita},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.1690},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

5 pages, no figures, minor improvements and references added

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