TeV-Scale Z' Bosons from D-branes

Details TeV-Scale Z' Bosons from D-branes TeV-Scale Z' Bosons from D-branes

2002-05-08

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0205083v2

JHEP 0208:016,2002

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

46 pages, LaTeX, JHEP.cls, 21 Figures. minor corrections

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2002/08/016

Generic D-brane string models of particle physics predict the existence of extra U(1) gauge symmetries beyond hypercharge. These symmetries are not of the E_6 class but rather include the gauging of Baryon and Lepton numbers as well as certain Peccei-Quinn-like symmetries. Some of the U(1)'s have triangle anomalies, but they are cancelled by a Green-Schwarz mechanism. The corresponding gauge bosons typically acquire a mass of order the string scale M_S by combining with two-index antisymmetric fields coming from the closed string sector of the theory. We argue that in string models with a low string scale M_S proportional to 1-10 TeV, the presence of these generic U(1)'s may be amenable to experimental test. Present constraints from electroweak precision data already set important bounds on the mass of these extra gauge bosons. In particular, for large classes of models, rho-parameter constraints imply M_S >= 1.5 TeV. In the present scheme some fraction of the experimentally measured Z^0 mass would be due not to the Higgs mechanism, but rather to the mixing with these closed string fields. We give explicit formulae for recently constructed classes of intersecting D6- and D5-brane models yielding the Standard Model (SM) fermion spectrum.

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