Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-05-14
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
15 pages, 1 figure; Important clarification which affects conclussions
Scientific paper
We use compact D=4, N=1, Type IIB orientifolds as a testing ground for recent ideas about precocious gauge coupling unification and a low energy string scale. We find that certain such orientifolds have the interesting property that gauge couplings receive moduli-dependent corrections which mimic the effect of field theoretical logarithmic running. The effective cut-off scale for the logarithmic correction is not $M_{string}$ but rather $M_X=\sqrt{\alpha}M_{Planck}M_c/M_{string}$, where $M_c$ is the compactification scale. Thus there is just normal logarithmic running up to $M_{string}$ and extra moduli dependent corrections which behave as if there was further running to a higher virtual scale $M_X$. In this mechanism a prominent role is played by anomalous U(1)'s with moduli dependent Fayet-Iliopoulos terms. A vanishing FI-term fixes the modulus dependence of the corrected gauge coupling. We discuss possible ways to implement this mechanism in the context of a simple extension of the MSSM.
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