Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1997-10-19
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A13 (1998) 2551-2598
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
49 pages, Revtex 3.0; one ps figure included. To appear in the Review section of Int.J.Mod.Phys
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217751X98001323
We review the construction and classification of three-family grand unified models within the framework of asymmetric orbifolds in perturbative heterotic superstring. We give a detailed survey of all such models which is organized to aid analysis of their phenomenological properties. We compute tree-level superpotentials for these models. These superpotentials are used to analyze the issues of proton stability (doublet-triplet splitting and R-parity violating terms) and Yukawa mass matrices. To have agreement with phenomenological data all these models seem to require certain degree of fine-tuning. We also analyze the possible patterns of supersymmetry breaking in these models. We find that the supersymmetry breaking scale comes out either too high to explain the electroweak hierarchy problem, or below the electroweak scale unless some degree of fine-tuning is involved. Thus, none of the models at hand seem to be phenomenologically flawless.
Henry Tye S.-H.
Kakushadze Zurab
Shiu Gary
Vtorov-Karevsky Yan
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