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The Standard Model Quiver in de Sitter String Compactifications

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-04-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We argue that the Standard Model quiver can be embedded into compact Calabi-Yau geometries through orientifolded D3-branes at del Pezzo singularities dPn\mathrm{dP}_n with n5n\geq 5 in a framework including moduli stabilisation. To illustrate our approach, we explicitly construct a local dP5\mathrm{dP}_{5} model via a combination of Higgsing and orientifolding. This procedure reduces the original dP5\mathrm{dP}_{5} 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.

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@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

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