Particle Physics Implications of F-Theory

By J. Heckman. 2010

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We review recent progress in realizing Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) in a strongly coupled formulation of type IIB string theory known as F-theory. This review's main emphasis is on the expected low-energy phenomenology of a minimal class of F-theory GUTs. We introduce the primary ingredients in such constructions, then present qualitative features of GUT models in this framework such as GUT breaking, doublet-triplet splitting, and proton decay. Next, we review proposals for realizing flavor hierarchies in the quark and lepton sectors. We discuss possible supersymmetry-breaking scenarios and their consequences for experiments, as well as geometrically minimal realizations of F-theory GUTs that incorporate most of these features.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Top down approach to 6D SCFTs (2018, background): “This amounts to a Higgsing of the parent gauge algebra to some subalgebra ga × gb ⊂ gparent which locally enhances back to gparent at the points of intersection (see the review article [87] for additional discussion).”
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T-branes and monodromy (2010, background): “When three seven-branes intersect, the fields living at the three (1)See [5, 6] for recent reviews.”
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