Towards a systematic construction of realistic D-brane models on a del Pezzo singularity

• Published in: The journal of high energy physics Vol. 2011; no. 10
• Main Authors: Dolan, Matthew J., Krippendorf, Sven, Quevedo, Fernando
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.10.2011; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Branes; Broken symmetry; Classical and Quantum Gravitation; Couplings; CP violation; Elementary Particles; Flavor (particle physics); Hierarchies; High energy physics; Instantons; Leptons; Neutrinos; Operators; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum Field Theories; Quantum Field Theory; Quantum Physics; Quarks; Relativity Theory; Scale models; Singularities; Standard model (particle physics); String Theory; Strings; Supersymmetry; Strings and branes phenomenology
• ISSN: 1029-8479; 1029-8479
• DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2011)024

A systematic approach is followed in order to identify realistic D-brane models at toric del Pezzo singularities. Requiring quark and lepton spectrum and Yukawas from D3 branes and massless hypercharge, we are led to Pati-Salam extensions of the Standard Model. Hierarchies of masses, flavour mixings and control of couplings select higher order del Pezzo singularities, minimising the Higgs sector prefers toric del Pezzos with dP 3 providing the most successful compromise. Then a supersymmetric local string model is presented with the following properties at low energies: (i) the MSSM spectrum plus a local B  −  L gauge field or additional Higgs fields depending on the breaking pattern, (ii) a realistic hierarchy of quark and lepton masses and (iii) realistic flavour mixing between quark and lepton families with computable CKM and PMNS matrices, and CP violation consistent with observations. In this construction, kinetic terms are diagonal and under calculational control suppressing standard FCNC contributions. Proton decay operators of dimension 4, 5, 6 are suppressed, and gauge couplings can unify depending on the breaking scales from string scales at energies in the range 10 12 –10 16 GeV, consistent with TeV soft-masses from moduli mediated supersymmetry breaking. The GUT scale model corresponds to D 3 branes at dP 3 with two copies of the Pati-Salam gauge symmetry SU(4) × SU(2) R  × SU(2) L . D -brane instantons generate a non-vanishing μ -term. Right handed sneutrinos can break the B  −  L symmetry and induce a see-saw mechanism of neutrino masses and R-parity violating operators with observable low-energy implications.