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Low Energy Supersymmetry from the Heterotic Landscape

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study possible correlations between properties of the observable and hidden sectors in heterotic string theory. Specifically, we analyze the case of the Z6-II orbifold compactification which produces a significant number of models with the spectrum of the supersymmetric standard model. We find that requiring realistic features does affect the hidden sector such that hidden sector gauge group factors SU(4) and SO(8) are favoured. In the context of gaugino condensation, this implies low energy supersymmetry breaking.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0611203,
  title  = {Low Energy Supersymmetry from the Heterotic Landscape},
  author = {Oleg Lebedev and Hans-Peter Nilles and Stuart Raby and Saul Ramos-Sanchez and Michael Ratz and Patrick K. S. Vaudrevange and Akin Wingerter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0611203},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures; to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett