Top quark mass coupling and classification of weakly-coupled heterotic superstring vacua

Abstract

The quest for the Standard Model among the huge number of string vacua is usually based on a set of phenomenological criteria related to the massless spectrum of string models. In this work we study criteria associated with interactions in the effective low energy theory and in particular with the presence of the coupling that provides mass to the top quark. Working in the context of the Free Fermionic Formulation of the heterotic superstring, we demonstrate that, in a big class of phenomenologically promising $Z_2\times Z_2$ compactifications, these criteria can be expressed entirely in terms of the generalised GSO projection coefficients entering the definition of the models. They are shown to be very efficient in identifying phenomenologically viable vacua, especially in the framework of computer-based search, as they are met by approximately one every $10^4$ models. We apply our results in the investigation of a class of supersymmetric Pati-Salam vacua, comprising $10^{16}$ configurations, and show that when combined with other phenomenological requirements they lead to a relatively small set of about $10^7$ Standard Model compatible models that can be fully classified.

arXiv comment13 pages, 1 figure, minor changes, to be published in The European Physical Journal C

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