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Field Theory on Multi-throat Backgrounds

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-17 v1

Abstract

We consider extra dimensional field theory descriptions of backgrounds with N different throats where one of the extra dimensions in each throat is much larger than the others. Such backgrounds can be described by field theory on N 5D warped spaces which intersect on a ultraviolet (UV) brane. Given a field that propagates in all N throats there are N boundary conditions on the UV brane (which are determined by the effective Lagrangian on the UV brane) in addition to the boundary conditions on the N infrared branes. We derive a general set of UV boundary conditions and give examples of how they are applied to particular situations. Three simple example applications are given: in the first the number of families is determined by the number of throats and the SUSY flavor problem is solved via an S_3 symmetry of the throats; in the second we embed this scenario in a SUSY GUT with a solution of the doublet-triplet splitting problem based on the product group approach; while in the final example we show a simple geometric implementation of a SUSY trinification model on three throats.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0604218,
  title  = {Field Theory on Multi-throat Backgrounds},
  author = {Giacomo Cacciapaglia and Csaba Csaki and Christophe Grojean and John Terning},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0604218},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

21 pages, 7 figures

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