The Standard Model Quiver in de Sitter String Compactifications
Abstract
We argue that the Standard Model quiver can be embedded into compact Calabi-Yau geometries through orientifolded D3-branes at del Pezzo singularities with in a framework including moduli stabilisation. To illustrate our approach, we explicitly construct a local model via a combination of Higgsing and orientifolding. This procedure reduces the original quiver gauge theory to the Left-Right symmetric model with three families of quarks and leptons as well as a Higgs sector to further break the symmetries to the Standard Model gauge group. We embed this local model in a globally consistent Calabi-Yau flux compactification with tadpole and Freed-Witten anomaly cancellations. The model features closed string moduli stabilisation with a de Sitter minimum from T-branes, supersymmetry broken by the K\"ahler moduli, and the MSSM as the low energy spectrum. We further discuss phenomenological and cosmological implications of this construction.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2106.11964,
title = {The Standard Model Quiver in de Sitter String Compactifications},
author = {Michele Cicoli and Iñaki García Etxebarria and Fernando Quevedo and Andreas Schachner and Pramod Shukla and Roberto Valandro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.11964},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
49 pages + appendices, 15 figures; typos corrected, references added