Building the standard model on a D3-brane

By H. Verlinde, M. Wijnholt. 2005

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We motivate and apply a bottom-up approach to string phenomenology, which aims to construct the Standard Model as a decoupled world-volume theory on a D3-brane. As a concrete proposal for such a construction, we consider a single probe D3-brane on a partial resolution of a del Pezzo 8 singularity. The resulting world-volume theory reproduces the field content and interactions of the MSSM, however with a somewhat extended Higgs sector. An attractive feature of our approach is that the gauge and Yukawa couplings are dual to non-dynamical closed string modes, and are therefore tunable parameters.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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D-brane Deconstructions in IIB Orientifolds (2008, background): “Rather general geometrical D-brane setups have been studied systematically in “bottom up”, local, noncompact Calabi-Yau varieties decoupled from gravity (for example in [17, 18, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32]).”
Counting BPS operators in gauge theories: quivers, syzygies and plethystics (2006, background): “[7, 56, 57]) ∆(27) is known to be a special point in the moduli space of dP8’s.”
The Hesse pencil of plane cubic curves (2006, background): “e Hilbert functions f(t) = X∞ n=0 dimH0(X,ω−n X )t n occur in physics as generating functions for counting BPS-states in superconformal quiver gauge theories in the string AdS5 ×X5-theories (see [5], [31]). We ﬁnally explain the geometric meaning of the intersection points of the invariant sextic C6”
Breaking GUT groups in $F$-theory (2008, background): “That is, a local model is defined by the existence of a decoupling limit [8]”
Model building with $F$-theory (2008, background): “However as in [3] we would like to take a more practical perspective with regards to the phenomenological requirements which have a direct impact on particle physics.”
Higgs Bundles and UV Completion in F-Theory (2009, background): “A possible way out was promoted in [42]: if M/MP l can be parametrically small, where M is some scale relevant for particle physics like the GUT scale, then we can prevent the unknown physics responsible for solving gravity-related problems from feeding back into physics at the scale M .”
F-theory GUT vacua on compact Calabi-Yau fourfolds (2009, background): “3), the existence of a decoupling limit has been emphasised in the recent literature [57, 4] as an organising principle of local (GUT) model building.”
MODELS OF PARTICLE PHYSICS FROM TYPE IIB STRING THEORY AND F-THEORY: A REVIEW (2012, result): “The spectrum from the large volume perspective was obtained in [144], systematic study of the D-terms led to the conclusion that the C/∆27 phase does not allow for breaking to the standard model gauge groups; although it was shown that a Seiberg dual phase is attractive for model building.”
Brane tilings and their applications (2008, methodology): “The are some proposals of constructing MSSM (or their modifications) or GUT on D3-brane probing Calabi-Yau singularity [255, 256].”
D-branes at del Pezzo singularities: global embedding and moduli stabilisation (2012, methodology): “Wijnholt-Verlinde dP8 model Following the arguments above we can continue with models at higher del Pezzo surfaces without flavour D7-branes.”
Stringy instantons and quiver gauge theories (2006, unknown): “September 2006”
GUTs in Type IIB Orientifold Compactifications (2008, methodology): “This is precisely the regime, where for the local building the techniques of quiver gauge theories on dPr singularities are relevant [74, 75, 29, 30, 76].”