7176848
Discrete R-symmetry anomalies in heterotic orbifold models
Anomalies of discrete R symmetries appearing in heterotic orbifold models are studied. We find that the mixed anomalies for different gauge groups satisfy the universal Green-Schwarz condition, indicating that these anomalies are canceled by the Green-Schwarz mechanism. An exact relation between the anomaly coefficients of the discrete R symmetries and one-loop beta-function coefficients is obtained. We also find that the discrete R symmetries have a good chance to be unbroken down to the supersymmetry breaking scale. Even below this scale a Z{sub 2} subgroup is unbroken, and it may be an origin of the R parity of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. Relations between the R-symmetry anomalies and T-duality anomalies are also investigated.
118042770
SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) Vacua in F-Theory
The Standard Model group and matter spectrum is obtained in vacua of F-theory, without resorting to an intermediate unification group. The group SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1)_Y is the commutant to SU(5)_t \times U(1)_Y structure group of a Higgs bundle in E_8 and is geometrically realized as a deformation of I_5 singularity. Lying along the unification groups of E_n, our vacua naturally inherit their unification structure. By modding SU(5)_t out by Z_4 monodromy group, we can distinguish Higgses from lepton doublets by matter parity. Turning on universal G-flux on this part, the spectrum contains three generations of quarks and leptons, as well as vectorlike pairs of electroweak and colored Higgses. Minimal Yukawa couplings is obtained at the renormalizable level.
119201914
Extended gauge symmetries in F-theory
We study gauge symmetry in F-theory in light of global aspects. For this, we consider not only a simple (local) group, but also a semi-simple group with Abelian factors. Once we specify the complete gauge group by decomposing the discriminant, analogous to arranging 7-branes, we can derive the matter contents, their localization and the relation to enhanced groups. Global constraints coming from Calabi-Yau conditions and anomaly cancellations imply a unified group. The semisiple group shows explicit formation of matter curves and nontriviality of its embedding into exceptional group. Also the dual heterotic string vacua with line bundles provide a guide on the unification.
118237829
UV Completion of Axion
A multiple number of global U(1)s, arising from accidental symmetries up to a certain order of the potential, enjoy lowering the axion decay constant from UV‐scale and evading supersymmetric Fayet–Illiopoulos term constraints.
16283086
Three generation magnetized orbifold models
Abstract We study three generation models in the four-dimensional spacetime, which can be derived from the ten-dimensional N = 1 super-Yang–Mills theory on the orbifold background with a non-vanishing magnetic flux. We classify the flavor structures and show possible patterns of Yukawa matrices. Some examples of numerical studies are also shown.
119243457
Non-Abelian Discrete Flavor Symmetries on Orbifolds
We study non-Abelian flavor symmetries on orbifolds, S1/Z2 and T2/Z3. Our extra dimensional models realize DN, Σ(2N2), Δ(3N2) and Δ(6N2) including A4 and S4. In addition, one can also realize their subgroups such as QN, T7, etc. The S3 flavor symmetry can be realized on both S1/Z2 and T2/Z3 orbifolds.
118604242
Quasar polarization with two axionlike particles
Abstract Recently, it was shown, that the absence of circular polarization of visible light from quasars, severely constrains the interpretation of axion like particles (ALPs) as a solution for the generation of the linear polarization. Furthermore, the new observation of the linear polarization in the radio wavelength from quasars, similar to the earlier observation performed in the optical band, makes the ALPs scenario inconsistent with at least one of the two observations. In this study we extend this scenario, to two axion like particles, one scalar and another pseudoscalar. We find, that the effects from scalar and pseudoscalar cancel out each other, thereby suppressing the circular polarization, while preserving consistent linear polarization, as observed in both visible and radio waves bands.
119268897
The degenerate gravitino scenario
In this work, we explore the ''degenerate gravitino'' scenario where the mass difference between the gravitino and the lightest MSSM particle is much smaller than the gravitino mass itself. In this case, the energy released in the decay of the next to lightest sypersymmetric particle (NLSP) is reduced. Consequently the cosmological and astrophysical constraints on the gravitino abundance, and hence on the reheating temperature, become softer than in the usual case. On the other hand, such small mass splittings generically imply a much longer lifetime for the NLSP. We find that, in the constrained MSSM (CMSSM), for neutralino LSP or NLSP, reheating temperatures compatible with thermal leptogenesis are reached for small splittings of order 10{sup −2} GeV. While for stau NLSP, temperatures of T{sub RH} ≅ 4 × 10{sup 9}GeV can be obtained even for splittings of order of tens of GeVs. This ''degenerate gravitino'' scenario offers a possible way out to the gravitino problem for thermal leptogenesis in supersymmetric theories.
14862395
Softness of brane-localized supersymmetry breaking on orbifolds
Abstract We consider the brane-localized supersymmetry breaking in 5D compactified on S 1 / Z 2 . In case of a bulk gaugino with arbitrary brane masses for its even and odd modes, we find the mass spectrum and the wave functions of gaugino. We show that the gaugino masses at the distant brane are soft in the usual sense in the effective field theory with zero modes of bulk gauge fields and they are also extremely soft in view of the one-loop finite mass of a brane scalar in the KK regularization.
53338971
Mixed mediation of supersymmetry breaking with anomalous U(1) gauge symmetry
Models with anomalous U(1) gauge symmetry contain various superfields which can have nonzero supersymmetry breaking auxiliary components providing the origin of soft terms in the visible sector, e.g. the U(1) vector superfield, the modulus or dilaton superfield implementing the Green-Schwarz anomaly cancellation mechanism, U(1)-charged but standard model singlet matter superfield required to cancel the Fayet-Iliopoulos term, and finally the supergravity multiplet. We examine the relative strength between these supersymmetry breaking components in a simple class of models, and find that various different mixed mediations of supersymmetry breaking, involving the modulus, gauge, anomaly and D-term mediations, can be realized depending upon the characteristics of D-flat directions and how those D-flat directions are stabilized with a vanishing cosmological constant. We identify two parameters which represent such properties and thus characterize how the various mediations are mixed. We also discuss the moduli stabilization and soft terms in a variant of KKLT scenario, in which the visible sector Kähler modulus is stabilized by the D-term potential of anomalous U(1) gauge symmetry.
118442232
String theoretic QCD axions in the light of PLANCK and BICEP2
A bstractThe QCD axion solving the strong CP problem may originate from antisymmetric tensor gauge fields in compactified string theory, with a decay constant around the GUT scale. Such possibility appears to be ruled out now by the detection of tensor modes by BICEP2 and the PLANCK constraints on isocurvature density perturbations. A more interesting and still viable possibility is that the string theoretic QCD axion is charged under an anomalous U(1)A gauge symmetry. In such case, the axion decay constant can be much lower than the GUT scale if moduli are stabilized near the point of vanishing Fayet-Illiopoulos term, and U(1)A-charged matter fields get a vacuum value v ~ (mSUSYMPln)1/(n + 1) (n ≥ 0) induced by a tachyonic SUSY breaking mass mSUSY. We examine the symmetry breaking pattern of such models during the inflationary epoch with HI ≃ 1014 GeV, and identify the range of the QCD axion decay constant, as well as the corresponding relic axion abundance, consistent with known cosmological constraints. In addition to the case that the PQ symmetry is restored during inflation, i.e. v(tI) = 0, there are other viable scenarios, including that the PQ symmetry is broken during inflation with v(tI) ∼ (4πHIMPln)1/(n + 1) ~ 1016–1017 GeV due to the Hubble-induced D-term DA ~ 8π2HI2, while v(t0) ~ (mSUSYMPln)1/(n + 1) ~ 109–5 × 1013 GeV in the present universe, where v(t0) above 1012 GeV requires a fine-tuning of the axion misalignment angle. We also discuss the implications of our results for the size of SUSY breaking soft masses.