Searching for string theories of the standard model
arXiv:hep-th/0108127
Abstract
We briefly review attempts to construct string theories that yield the standard model, concentrating on models with a geometric interpretation. Calabi-Yau compactifications are discussed in the context of both the weakly coupled heterotic string and the strongly coupled version, heterotic M-theory. Similarly, we consider orbifold compactifications of weakly coupled heterotic theory and of Type II theories in the presence of D-branes. The latter allows a "bottom-up" construction that so far seems the most natural and direct route to the standard model.
arXiv comment21 pages, LaTeX file, Based on a talk given by D. Bailin, at the first Cairo International Conference on High Energy Physics, (CICHEP 2001), Jan.2001. To be published in the proceedings
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