SU(5) D-brane realizations, Yukawa couplings and proton stability
Abstract
We discuss SU(5) Grand Unified Theories in the context of orientifold compactifications. Specifically, we investigate two and three D-brane stack realizations of the Georgi-Glashow and the flipped SU(5) model and analyze them with respect to their Yukawa couplings. As pointed out in arXiv:0909.0271 the most economical Georgi-Glashow realization based on two stacks generically suffers from a disastrous large proton decay rate. We show that allowing for an additional U(1) D-brane stack this as well as other phenomenological problems can be resolved. We exemplify with globally consistent Georgi-Glashow models based on RCFT that these D-brane quivers can be indeed embedded in a global setting. These globally consistent realizations admit rigid O(1) instantons inducing the perturbatively missing coupling 10105^H. Finally we show that flipped SU(5) D-brane realizations even with multiple U(1) D-brane stacks are plagued by severe phenomenological drawbacks which generically cannot be overcome.
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@article{arxiv.1010.5188,
title = {SU(5) D-brane realizations, Yukawa couplings and proton stability},
author = {Pascal Anastasopoulos and George K. Leontaris and Robert Richter and A. N. Schellekens},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.5188},
year = {2011}
}
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34 pages v2 minor corrections