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String completion of an electroweak model

arXiv:1604.02117 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.06.015

Abstract

The extended electroweak symmetry framework "explaining" the number of fermion families is revisited. While -based schemes can not easily be unified within the conventional field theory sense, we show how to do it within an approach based on D-branes and (un)oriented open strings, on Calabi-Yau singularities. We show how the theory can be UV-completed in a quiver setup, free of gauge and string anomalies. Lepton and baryon numbers are perturbatively conserved, so neutrinos are Dirac-type, and their lightness results from a novel TeV scale seesaw mechanism. Dynamical violation of baryon number by exotic instantons could induce neutron-antineutron oscillations, with proton decay and other dangerous R-parity violating processes strictly forbidden.

12 pages, 2 figures, published version

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