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Tri-linear Couplings in an Heterotic Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We calculate, at the classical level, the superpotential tri-linear couplings of the only known globally consistent heterotic minimal supersymmetric Standard Model [ hep-th/0512149 ]. This recently constructed model is based on a compactification of the E_8 x E_8 heterotic string theory on a Calabi-Yau threefold with Z_2 fundamental group, coupled with a slope-stable holomorphic SU(5) vector bundle. In the observable sector the massless particle content is that of the three-family supersymmetric Standard Model with n=0,1,2 massless Higgs pairs, depending on the location in the vector bundle moduli space, and no exotic particles. We obtain non-zero Yukawa couplings for the three up-sector quarks, and vanishing R-parity violating terms. In particular, the proton is stable. Another interesting feature is the existence of tri-linear couplings, on the loci with massless Higgs pairs, generating \mu-mass parameters for the Higgs pairs and neutrino mass terms, with specific vector bundle moduli playing the role of right-handed neutrinos.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0602096,
  title  = {Tri-linear Couplings in an Heterotic Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model},
  author = {Vincent Bouchard and Mirjam Cvetic and Ron Donagi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0602096},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

24 pages, no figure. v2: minor corrections, references added, version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B