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hep-th2008★ 6 cited
Two Higgs Pair Heterotic Vacua and Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents
Michael Ambroso, Volker Braun, Burt A. Ovrut
We present a vacuum of heterotic M-theory whose observable sector has the MSSM spectrum with the addition of one extra pair of Higgs-Higgs conjugate superfields. The quarks/leptons…
hep-th2008★ 4 cited
Worldsheet Instantons and Torsion Curves
Volker Braun, Maximilian Kreuzer, Burt A. Ovrut +1
We study aspects of worldsheet instantons relevant to a heterotic standard model. The non-simply connected Calabi-Yau threefold used admits Z_3 x Z_3 Wilson lines, and a more detai…