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Mass Hierarchies vs. Proton Decay in MSSM Orientifold Compactifications

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-01-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We review two systematic bottom-up analyses of MSSM quivers recently performed by the authors. We extend the analysis of arXiv:0905.3379 by including constraints arising from proton decay via dimension 5 operators and present all four-stack quivers in the Madrid embedding which satisfy this additional constraint. Furthermore, we investigate and make precise the interplay between mass hierarchies obtained via factorizable Yukawa textures and the presence of dimension 5 proton decay operators in MSSM orientifold compactifications. We discuss this issue in a five-stack quiver, first presented in arXiv:0909.4292, which exhibits proper mass hierarchies and no rapid proton decay.

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@article{arxiv.0910.2239,
  title  = {Mass Hierarchies vs. Proton Decay in MSSM Orientifold Compactifications},
  author = {Mirjam Cvetič and James Halverson and Robert Richter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.2239},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

In part based on talks given at various conferences and schools