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Supercompositeness Inspired From Superstrings

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-02-03 v2

Abstract

String Unified Models based on the k=1k=1 level of the Kac-Moody Algebra, predict the existence of ``exotic'' new states which carry fractional electric charges. We analyse the possibility of considering these ``exotics'' as preonic matter which can be used to form the families and the gauge group breaking higgs scalars. It is proposed that such a formation may occur provided that these states transform non-trivially under a non-Abelian gauge group with a relatively large rank in order to confine them at a sufficiently large scale. Such a situation is natural in string derived unified models, since the role of the confining group can be played by (part of) the Hidden symmetry. As an example, we present a string derived toy model based on the SU(4)×SU(2)L×SU(2)RSU(4)\times SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R Pati-Salam gauge group.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9604265,
  title  = {Supercompositeness Inspired From Superstrings},
  author = {P. Dimopoulos and G. K. Leontaris and N. D. Tracas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9604265},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

12 pages, all needed macros included, short version to appear in Z fur Physik