Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-08-11
Phys.Rev.D62:035005,2000
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
28 pages, 6 figures; corrected bug in the code and a few typos, results qualitatively unchanged
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.035005
We investigate the possibility of large CP- violating phases in the soft breaking terms derived in superstring models. The bounds on the electric dipole moments (EDM's) of the electron and neutron are satisfied through cancellations occuring because of the structure of the string models. Three general classes of four-dimensional string models are considered: (i) orbifold compactifications of perturbative heterotic string theory, (ii) scenarios based on Ho\v{r}ava-Witten theory, and (iii) Type I string models (Type IIB orientifolds). Nonuniversal phases of the gaugino mass parameters greatly facilitate the necessary cancellations among the various contributions to the EDM's; in the overall modulus limit, the gaugino masses are universal at tree level in both the perturbative heterotic models and the Ho\v{r}ava-Witten scenarios, which severely restricts the allowed regions of parameter space. Nonuniversal gaugino masses do arise at one-loop in the heterotic orbifold models, providing for corners of parameter space with ${\cal O}(1)$ phases consistent with the phenomenological bounds. However, there is a possibility of nonuniversal gaugino masses at tree level in the Type I models, depending on the details of the embedding of the SM into the D- brane sectors. We find that in a minimal model with a particular embedding of the Standard Model gauge group into two D- brane sectors, viable large phase solutions can be obtained over a wide range of parameter space.
Brhlik Michal
Everett Lisa L.
Kane Gordon L.
Lykken Joseph
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