Dual Models of Gauge Unification in Various Dimensions

Details Dual Models of Gauge Unification in Various Dimensions Dual Models of Gauge Unification in Various Dimensions

2004-12-21

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0412318v1

Nucl.Phys.B712:139-156,2005

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

20 pages

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.01.038

We construct a compactification of the heterotic string on an orbifold T^6/Z_6 leading to the standard model spectrum plus vector--like matter. The standard model gauge group is obtained as an intersection of three SO(10) subgroups of E_8. Three families of SO(10) 16-plets are localized at three equivalent fixed points. Gauge coupling unification favours existence of an intermediate GUT which can have any dimension between five and ten. Various GUT gauge groups occur. For example, in six dimensions one can have E_6 \times SU(3), SU(4) \times SU(4) \times U(1)^2 or SO(8) \times SO(8), depending on which of the compact dimensions are large. The different higher--dimensional GUTs are `dual' to each other. They represent different points in moduli space, with the same massless spectrum and ultraviolet completion.

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