Split symmetries

Jul 24, 2015
5 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 750 (2015) 615-619
  • Published: Oct 1, 2015
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Report number:
  • DESY-15-095

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We consider six-dimensional supergravity with gauge group SO(10)×U(1)A , compactified on the orbifold T2/Z2 . Three quark–lepton generations arise as zero modes of a bulk 16 -plet due to magnetic flux of the anomalous U(1)A . Boundary conditions at the four fixed points break SO(10) to subgroups whose intersection is the Standard Model gauge group. The gauge and Higgs sector consist of “split” SO(10) multiplets. As a consequence of the U(1)A flux, squarks and sleptons are much heavier than gauge bosons, Higgs bosons, gauginos and higgsinos. We thus obtain a picture similar to “split supersymmetry”. The flavor structure of the quark and lepton mass matrices is determined by the symmetry breaking at the orbifold fixed points.
Note:
  • 14 pages, 1 figure, clarifying paragraph added, to appear in PLB
  • fixed point: orbifold
  • supersymmetry: split
  • flux: magnetic
  • symmetry breaking
  • compactification
  • supergravity
  • family: 3
  • dimension: 6
  • SO(10) x U(1)