Abstract: Many four-dimensional supersymmetric compactifications of F-theory contain gauge groups that cannot be spontaneously broken through geometric deformations. These “non-Higgsable clusters” include realizations of SU(3), SU(2), and SU(3) × SU(2), but no SU(n) gauge groups or factors with n > 3. We study possible realizations of the standard model in F-theory that utilize non-Higgsable clusters containing SU(3) factors and show that there are three distinct possibilities. In one, fields with the non-abelian gauge charges of the standard model matter fields are localized at a single locus where non-perturbative SU(3) and SU(2) seven-branes intersect; cancellation of gauge anomalies implies that the simplest four-dimensional chiral SU(3) × SU(2) × U(1) model that may arise in this context exhibits standard model families. We identify specific geometries that realize non-Higgsable SU(3) and SU(3) × SU(2) sectors. This kind of scenario provides a natural mechanism that could explain the existence of an unbroken QCD sector, or more generally the appearance of light particles and symmetries at low energy scales.

Grassi, A., Halverson, J., Shaneson, J., Taylor, W. (2015). Non-Higgsable QCD and the standard model spectrum in F-theory. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2015(1), 1-58 [10.1007/JHEP01(2015)086].

Non-Higgsable QCD and the standard model spectrum in F-theory

Grassi, Antonella;
2015

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Abstract: Many four-dimensional supersymmetric compactifications of F-theory contain gauge groups that cannot be spontaneously broken through geometric deformations. These “non-Higgsable clusters” include realizations of SU(3), SU(2), and SU(3) × SU(2), but no SU(n) gauge groups or factors with n > 3. We study possible realizations of the standard model in F-theory that utilize non-Higgsable clusters containing SU(3) factors and show that there are three distinct possibilities. In one, fields with the non-abelian gauge charges of the standard model matter fields are localized at a single locus where non-perturbative SU(3) and SU(2) seven-branes intersect; cancellation of gauge anomalies implies that the simplest four-dimensional chiral SU(3) × SU(2) × U(1) model that may arise in this context exhibits standard model families. We identify specific geometries that realize non-Higgsable SU(3) and SU(3) × SU(2) sectors. This kind of scenario provides a natural mechanism that could explain the existence of an unbroken QCD sector, or more generally the appearance of light particles and symmetries at low energy scales.
2015
Grassi, A., Halverson, J., Shaneson, J., Taylor, W. (2015). Non-Higgsable QCD and the standard model spectrum in F-theory. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2015(1), 1-58 [10.1007/JHEP01(2015)086].
Grassi, Antonella; Halverson, James*; Shaneson, Julius; Taylor, Washington
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