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R-parity from string compactification

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-05-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In this paper, we embed the Z4R\Z_{4R} parity as a discrete subgroup of a global symmetry \UoR\,obtained from Z12I\Z_{12-I} compactification of heterotic string \EE8\EE8. A part of \UoR\,transformation is the shift of the anticommuting variable ϑ\vartheta to eiαϑe^{i\alpha}\vartheta which necessarily incoorporate the transformation of internal space coordinate. Out of six internal spaces, we identify three U(1)'s whose charges are denoted as Q18,Q20Q_{18},Q_{20}, and Q22Q_{22}. The \UoR~is defined as \UEE×\times\UKK~where \UEE~is the part from \EE8\EE8 and \UKK~is the part generated by Q18,Q20Q_{18},Q_{20}, and Q22Q_{22}. We propose a method to define a \UoR~direction. The needed vacuum expectation values for breaking gauge U(1)'s except U(1)Y_Y of the standard model carry \UoR~charge 4 modulo 4 such that \UoR~is broken down to Z4R\Z_{4R} at the grand unification scale. Z4R\Z_{4R} is broken to Z2R\Z_{2R} between the intermediate (1011\gev\sim 10^{11\,}\gev) and the electroweak scales (100\gev1\tev100\,\gev\sim 1\,\tev). The conditions we impose are proton longevity, a large top quark mass, and acceptable magnitudes for the μ\mu term and neutrino masses.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1810.10796,
  title  = {R-parity from string compactification},
  author = {Jihn E. Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.10796},
  year   = {2019}
}

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21 pages with 3 figures