Non-minimal Higgs content in standard-like models from D-branes at a Z_N singularity
arXiv:hep-th/0406031 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2004.07.043
Abstract
We show that attempts to construct the standard model, or the MSSM, by placing D3-branes and D7-branes at a Z_N orbifold or orientifold singularity all require that the electroweak Higgs content is non-minimal. For the orbifold the lower bound on the number n(H) + n({\bar{H}}) of electroweak Higgs doublets is the number n(q^c_L)=6 of quark singlets, and for the orientifold the lower bound can be one less. As a consequence there is a generic flavour changing neutral current problem in such models.
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