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Unification Scale in String Theory

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v3

Abstract

We study the unification scale and gauge coupling constant in 4D string theory. We show that the fine structure constant is determined by the dimension of the hidden gauge group and only SU(6)SU(6) and SO(9)SO(9) are consistent with minimal string unification while the unification scale can be of order of 1016GeV10^{16}\,GeV.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9401239,
  title  = {Unification Scale in String Theory},
  author = {A. de la Macorra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9401239},
  year   = {2009}
}

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