Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: I review a heterotic-string solution in which the observable sector effective field theory just below the string scale reduces to that of the MSSM, with the standard observable gauge group being just SU(3)C × SU(2)L × U(1)Y and the SU(3)C × SU(2)L × U(1)Y - charged spectrum of the observable sector consisting solely of the MSSM spectrum. Associated with this model is a set of distinct flat directions of vacuum expectation values (VEVs) of fields that all produce solely the MSSM spectrum. Some of these directions only involve VEVs of non-Abelian singlet fields while others also contain VEVs of non-Abelian charged fields. The phenomenology of theses flat directions is summarized.
Author: Gerald B. Cleaver
Institutions: Houston Advanced Research Center, Texas A&M University
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2000650475