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Scherk-Schwarz Breaking and Intersecting Branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-05 v1

Abstract

We study the effect of Scherk-Schwarz deformations on intersecting branes. Non-chiral fermions in any representation of the Chan-Paton gauge group generically acquire a tree-level mass dependent on the compactification radius and the brane wrapping numbers. This offers an elegant solution to one of the long-standing problems in intersecting-brane-world models where the ubiquitous presence of massless non-chiral fermions is a clear embarrassment for any attempt to describe the Standard Model of Particle Physics.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0503179,
  title  = {Scherk-Schwarz Breaking and Intersecting Branes},
  author = {C. Angelantonj and M. Cardella and N. Irges},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0503179},
  year   = {2010}
}

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48 pages, 13 figures

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