Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2000-02-28
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A16:3565-3582,2001
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
18 pages. Standard Latex. References added
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217751X01004918
The aim of superstring phenomenology is to develop the tools and methodology needed to confront string theory with experimental data. The first mandatory task is to find string solutions which reproduce the observable data. The subsequent goal is to extract potential signatures beyond the observable data. Recently, by studying exact flat directions of non-Abelian singlet fields, we demonstrated the existence of free fermionic heterotic-string models in which the $SU(3)\times SU(2)\times U(1)_Y$-charged matter spectrum, just below the string scale, consists solely of the MSSM spectrum. In this paper we study the possibility that the exact flat directions leave a $U(1)_{Z^\prime}$ symmetry unbroken at the Planck scale. We demonstrate in a specific example that such unbroken $U(1)_{Z^\prime}$ is in general expected to be not of the GUT type but of intrinsic stringy origin. We study its phenomenological characteristics and the consequences in the case that $U(1)_{Z^\prime}$ remains unbroken down to low energies. We suggest that observation in forthcoming colliders of a $Z^\prime$, with universal couplings for the two light generations but different couplings for the heavy generation may provide evidence for the $Z_2\times Z_2$ orbifold which underlies the free fermionic models.
Cleaver Gerald B.
Faraggi Alon E.
Nanopoulos Dimitri V.
Veldhuis Tonnis ter
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