A Standard model from the E(8) x E(8) heterotic superstring

Feb, 2005
24 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 06 (2005) 039
e-Print:
Report number:
  • UPR-1104-T

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Abstract:
In a previous paper, we introduced a heterotic standard model and discussed its basic properties. This vacuum has the spectrum of the MSSM with one additional pair of Higgs-Higgs conjugate fields and a small number of uncharged moduli. In this paper, the requisite vector bundles are formulated: specifically, stable, holomorphic bundles with structure group SU(N) on smooth Calabi-Yau threefolds with Z_3 x Z_3 fundamental group. A method for computing bundle cohomology is presented and used to evaluate the cohomology groups of the standard model bundles. It is shown how to determine the Z_3 x Z_3 action on these groups. Finally, using an explicit method of doublet-triplet splitting, the low-energy particle spectrum is computed.
  • string model: heterotic
  • gauge field theory: E(8) x E(8)
  • compactification
  • symmetry breaking
  • particle: multiplet
  • fibre bundle
  • membrane model: p-brane
  • p-brane: 5
  • cohomology