Natural gauge-coupling unification at the string scale
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-28 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We argue that moduli in the adjoint representation of the standard- model gauge group are a natural feature of superstring models, and that they can account for the apparent discrepancy between the string and unification scales.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9510094,
title = {Natural gauge-coupling unification at the string scale},
author = {C. Bachas and C. Fabre and T. Yanagida},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9510094},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, LaTeX file. Minor modifications, final version to appear in Physics Letters B